What is Alps?
Alps provides KS4 and KS5 performance analysis and tracking for schools and groups through our platforms Connect and Summit.
Our analysis is simple, easy to use, and effective. Progress is measured against our own national, aspirational benchmarks to ensure all students achieve their potential.
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 Company | Business Name: Alps HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2001 |
| Age Range | 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | In-year TrackingStudent-led AnalysisStudent, Subject, Whole School And Group AnalysisQuickly Spot Areas For ImprovementHighlight Strengths And Share Good PracticeImprove Outcomes With Aspirational Target SettingSwift, Visual AnalysisBenchmarking Against National Data SetsCommon Language For ProgressSend, Eal And Other FiltersModel Improvement With What-if? ToolCat4 Support |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Few to no features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High Bandwidth |
 Set Up | Within a couple of hours |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Complete Support and Onboarding We make using Alps easy. Our highly-rated training and support includes: - Allocated Alps Account Manager - Dedicated phone and email support all-year-round with our experienced team - Access to a regularly updated knowledge base - Onboarding for new schools and colleges - Data set up session - Intro to Connect Interactive session The Alps Champions Programme Your data is only the first step. We have excellent practical resources to help you to embed Alps to make a difference to your student outcomes. The starting point is our Alps Champion handbook – a digital guide with all you need to launch and use Alps. - Free live and recorded webinars - Regular blogs, briefing papers and newsletters - Checklists for teachers, pastoral and senior leaders - Quick videos and training guides |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | School must create the account. |
 Tags | Data AnalysisKS4 and KS5 performance insightsperformance insightsstudent progressKS5KS4 |
Alps PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Subscription pricing is available on 1, 2, and 3 Year plans. Pricing is split into simple tiers based on the size of your KS5 cohort, with KS4 analysis available at a fixed cost. Group platform pricing is also available.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Mr Elfed T Morris
Gwynedd and Anglesey Post-16 Education Consortium Coordinator.
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Jul 2024
Excellent support and training services provided by ALPS staff as part of the ALPS package.
Mr Elfed T Morris found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“From an LEA Perspective: Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement. Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades. To ensure that individual establishments achieve the desired level of learner attainment.”
Jun 2024
ALPS is great for looking at individual and department level data - and whole year group. We can see which students are not achieving targets across different subject areas. I would really like to see an overall summary of where the school is against Welsh performance measures as I have to put data into a separate spreadsheet in order to do this.
Lucy Bunce found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Identify which students to focus on for intervention when looking to raise overall attainment”
- Moderately improves school processes“Deciding which students should be given additional study sessions”
- Moderately improves attainment
May 2024
ALPs has been very powerful as a tool to support the effective analysis of value added data at all levels within school.
Ceri Garlant found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We use ALPs after each progress check to identify whole school those subject areas where pupil progress is a concern. This supports senior leaders in challenging and supporting middle leaders as part of a cycle of standards meetings and also helps middle leaders to identify strengths and areas needing development at subject level. The class analysis tool is particularly useful, as is the analysis for groups of learners.”
- Significantly improves school processes“ALPs supports our self evaluation processes both at whole school level and faculty level. It provide robust and honest value added analysis that we can use to identify what practices are working well and areas which need development.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The 'what if' analysis is perfect for use by teaching colleagues and faculty leaders for identifying which individual students will have the greatest impact on outcomes if intervention is put in place. The analysis also allows us as a school and within faculties to identify which groups of learners may not be making the expected progress.”
May 2024
All staff this year have said how much they like it, although I don't think they use the site themselves, just what the data manager produces.
Amy Hornblow found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Extra sessions for those who are on grade borders. Teachers can see how students in their subject compare to other subjects and address any inconsistencies. Teachers use "what if" functions to look at impact on their results as a whole and then put measures in place”
- Moderately improves school processes“Our data manager now gives us all data drop information in one colour coded spreadsheet. This helps to inform students target setting and interviews with form tutors/HOY/parents”
- Slightly improves attainment“I am only neutral as we have only started using it more consistently this year across all subjects through our data manager.”
Beth Willis
PE Teacher/Dep Dir Sixth Form
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Apr 2024
ALPS has allowed us to easily monitor and track pupil progress with fantastic support
Beth Willis found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Able to adapt differetiation and monitor/track pupils”
- Significantly improves school processes“Tracking and monitoring pupils”
- Significantly improves attainment“Targeted interventions”
Apr 2024
Ease of use and accuracy in analysis has meant that ALPS is a key driver of both our self evaluation processes and development plan formulation.
Mark Wagner found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ALPS is a fantastic tool for providing my staff and I with the key analysis we need to pinpoint areas of strength and development, therefore giving us more time to develop pedagogy and strategy to target these areas.”
- Significantly improves school processes“ALPS has been incredibly important in my quality assurance processes as head of faculty. It allows my staff to take ownership of the performance of their classes and drives improvement in outcomes.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Up to date analysis using regular internal data drops let me see how whole cohort and, crucially, specific groups of learners are performing. This drives intervention and has seen improvement in outcomes at both key stage 4 and 5.”
Apr 2024
A simple and effective value added system that allows teachers and leaders to get to the heart of student progress and achievement.
Dominic Pinto found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Forensic analysis of individual students and student groups.”
- Significantly improves school processes“It has become the basis of our quality assurance and school improvement process.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows teachers to really consider their practice and how they can incrementally improve student grades.”
Simon Davies
Head
Used Alps weekly for 7–12 months
Apr 2024
The flexibility the system provides, the immediate analysis allowing easier intervention, national subject comparisons, ease of use
Simon Davies found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Ability to target important groups of pupils and individuals to be able to plan their learning better”
- Significantly improves school processes“Allowed us to track pupil progress more consistently with clear analysis provided to be able to intervene on whole school, department and individual level quickly and effectively”
- Significantly improves attainment“There are clear examples of improved progress during our comparisons of data drops that will, hopefully, come through with exam outcomes”
Sarah Smith
Assistant Head (Head of Sixth Form)
Used Alps daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2024
An excellent tool to analyse student performance, which is user-friendly, accurate and extremely helpful in contributing to improved student outcomes!
Sarah Smith found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to target those underperforming in their subject by liaising with other staff where students are meeting/exceeding targets”
- Significantly improves school processes“It enables middle leaders to take greater ownership of their data enabling more efficient and accurate analysis”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our KM students make significant improvement when targeted with personalised interventions following Alps analysis”
Feb 2024
Alps has aided new processes in our tracking in sixth form to be more robust. The data is readily available, with a wealth of useful filters to target individual groups of students.
Rob Jones found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps has allowed us to put tailored mentoring into place for students so that they feel more supported. It has significantly improved our current retention figures.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Staff have more data to discuss in departments so that mentoring is more targeted.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Pupils are more involved in their own progress, by being made aware of MEG's and how to improve.”
Geraint Lewis
Principal Improvment Partner Cardiff Secondary and Special schools
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Feb 2024
A very useful school and subject improvement tool that could be further enhanced by including generation of Wales Interim Performance Measures.
Geraint Lewis found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Departments have used ALPS Connect to analyse pupil groups' performance in-year and and at end of qualifications to inform discussion and sharing of teaching and learning practices.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Use of minimum expected grades during pupil mentoring sessions has resulted in the use of aspirational target setting owned by the learner.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Departments have been able to analyse patterns of performance and put in place interventions to improve attainment.”
Gareth Lanagan
Corporate Manager for School Improvement
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Feb 2024
I see as an integral part of the school improvement process
Gareth Lanagan found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes“Helps us understand how all learners are doing as opposed to raw results”
- Significantly improves attainment“Use the data in year to target interventions for learners”
Catrin Walters
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 4-6 months
Dec 2023
It’s ability to compare similar students in each subject across the country provides us with an excellent tool for monitoring our students’ progress.
Catrin Walters found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Enables leaders to identify students who are underachieving and provide tailored support.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Provides a quick and effective method of monitoring student progress, which feeds into the school mentoring and student support plan.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows teachers to identify and provide support to students who are underachieving early in the year, leading to improved attainment.”
Dec 2023
It has such a lot to offer to help drive improvement.
Michael found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“To identify learners who need minimal action to improve.”
- Significantly improves school processes“When identifying underperformance by attendance.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows learner interviews to identify specific areas that can be improved with minimal effort.”
Carys Pritchard
Principal Improvement Partner
Used Alps occasionally for 3-4 years
Nov 2023
Alps is a valuable tool to track and support the progress of learners in schools. It provides schools with comprehensive information to support their self-evaluation and monitoring activities.
Carys Pritchard found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Provides valuable information about the progress of specific groups of learners. This information can then be used to plan appropriate interventions and differentiation.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Provides valuable and comprehensive information about the progress of learners that supports self-evaluation and monitoring processes well.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The tools available support careful tracking of individual and groups of pupils. When used effectively, schools use this data to influence their planning and teaching in order to raise standards of specific groups of learners.”
Nov 2023
Its a standardised approach which enables like for like comparisons.
SF found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It supports schools to realise the strengths and areas for development across the curriculum”
- Slightly improves school processes“Enables Alps to be used as a feature of self evaluation and school development planning”
- Slightly improves attainment“Enables schools to share practice with regional, collated Alps reports providing an overview of all schools attainment across a region enabling brokering of support and partnership working”
Nov 2023
Rowan Pearson found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows us to quickly and meaningfully identify students or classes who may need additional support. This means we can make the most of our limited capacity to boost student progress.”
- Significantly improves school processes“We have seen huge improvements in our exams analysis processes since using Alps. In particular, the focus on continual improvement through timely and meaningful professional conversations means that teachers and HODs feel well-supported to drive improvement in their own classes and subjects.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Since using Alps, we have been able to greatly improve teachers' understanding and use of academic data. The intuitive, user-friendly platform means that teachers, rather than getting bogged down in data and made-up stories about numbers, are always focused on the quality of teaching and individual student needs.”
Nov 2023
I have used Alps in two different schools now and in my opinion it is the best school improvement tool out there. The Alps consultant we work with is also exceedingly helpful as are the entire team.
Charlotte Robins found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“By identifying the teachers who are facilitating the least and the most progress.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Alps is an excellent school improvement tool and we use MEGS as school targets.”
- Significantly improves attainment“By identifying pupils and subjects making the least and most progress so appropriate interventions can be put in place to facilitate improvements.”
Oct 2023
I find Alps easy to use. It gives us a clear idea of students expected grades and tracks progress through the course (based on staff professional predictions).
Victoria Moore found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps enables us to closely monitor student progress which enables staff to focus on students requiring further interventions.”
- Moderately improves school processes“We link our professional predictions to Alps and use the reports to inform my discussions with heads of department.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Timely interventions as a results of Alps tracking enables students to attain higher grades”
Oct 2023
Really good interactive features now
Rob Wagland found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We use Alps for SEFs and target setting”
- Significantly improves school processes“Self evaluation is better informed”
- Moderately improves attainment“In tracking we identify pupils underperforming and choose how to respond”
Oct 2023
Alps is very student-focused and easy to understand/use. It is widely known in the sector and it therefore carries great weight
Simon Lett found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Targeting specific intervention for underperforming groups of students”
- Significantly improves school processes“Whole organisational approach to, for example, high grades”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows teacher monitoring to focus on specific standards of performance based on prior attainment”
John Fabes
Post-16 lead, Caerphilly Council
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Oct 2023
I believe Alps is an exceptional tool which, when fully utilised by schools and students, can have a hugely positive impact on student and school outcomes. There is real clarity in Alps reports with the opportunity to drill down to a really detailed level of analysis for self-evaluation and improvement.
John Fabes found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Where schools are working in partnership Alps provides an excellent common tool in developing consistent QA practices across all the schools especially in the setting of student expectations and monitoring progress.”
- Moderately improves school processes“In local partnerships Alps data is considered when constructing the joint curriculum offer and where sustained under-performance in a subject is noted, it is likely to be withdrawn from future offers.”
- Moderately improves attainment“The use of Alps in monitoring student progress and providing value-added feedback to subject teachers has a direct effect on improving student and subject performance year on year.”
Jane Coley
CEO
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
Amazing immediate support, highly effective data analysis, in depth understanding of organisational need
Jane Coley found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Laser sharp understanding of learners needs”
- Significantly improves school processes“Data analysis effectiveness significantly improved”
- Significantly improves attainment“Teachers use of individual and class chance graphs”
Helen McGuinness
Reepham College Director
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
The only element of feedback which staff have reported back would be the choice of colour in the thermometer. Staff across schools often associate red with negative (RAG rating), but then a thermometer is red or blue.
Helen McGuinness found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“By looking at trends in data we have been able to make curriculum changes to benefit our students.”
- Moderately improves school processes“The aspirational targets set by Alps are used as the benchmark for tracking student progress using our reporting system.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Training all senior and middle leaders in their use of Alps Connect has enabled us to maintain progress in the top 25% consistently for a number of years.”
Oct 2023
ALPs has been an invaluable to me as a school and MAT leader over the years. It has enabled me to review departmental, school and MAT performance, as well as drilling down to student group level to ensure we review our teaching methodology to get the best out of individuals.
Louise Lee found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Discussions regarding groups and ensuring equality of opportunity for all”
- Moderately improves school processes“Coherence when discussing performance at a MAT level”
- Moderately improves attainment“No”
