Lumio for Schools
Built for every team in your school
Your school, fully connected.
Lumio connects your MIS, safeguarding tools, and communication platforms — automating the admin that eats your team's time and surfacing the data that matters.
Built for primary, secondary, and MAT leadership. From 200 to 2,000 pupils.
How it works
Up and running in under 30 minutes
Connect your MIS
Authorise SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom, or iSAMS in a few clicks. Live two-way sync from day one. No developer, no spreadsheet export.
Activate your workflows
Browse 12 pre-built school workflows — from absence alerts to governor reports. Each one shows exactly what it does before you switch it on.
Save hours every week
Lumio runs in the background. Your team stops chasing, compiling, and re-entering. You get the time back.
Modules
Purpose-built for every school team
Whether you're in attendance, safeguarding, SEND, or SLT — every module works together in Lumio.
Attendance
6 workflows included
From the morning register to persistent absence — every step automated. Parents notified in 60 seconds. DSL alerted if no response. Weekly and termly reports generated without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
Absence marked → parent SMS and email sent within 60 seconds, school-branded.
Parent doesn't reply by 9:30am → DSL automatically alerted.
Pupil hits 90% threshold → HoY and SENCO notified automatically.
Auto-generated every Monday at 7am, ready for SLT.
Termly summary formatted for governors — no manual compilation.
Monthly breakdown by year group with traffic light indicators.
Key integrations for Attendance
What you get
- Live dashboard updated in real time
- Workflows run automatically — no one needs to trigger them
- Alerts sent to the right person instantly
- Full audit trail of every action — Ofsted-ready
- AI-generated summaries, reports, and communications
Live dashboards for governors,
trusts, and the LA.
Give your governors, trust leadership, and local authority their own real-time window into school performance — without a single manual report ever again.
Lumio builds fully custom dashboards for MAT executive teams, governing bodies, and LA reporting — pulling live data from your MIS, safeguarding tools, and finance systems. What used to take your SBM two days to compile is now available 24/7 at the click of a button.
Real-time MIS connection
Your dashboard pulls live data from SIMS, Arbor, or Bromcom — attendance, SEND register, exclusions, staffing. No exports. No manual updates. Always current.
One-click Ofsted packs
Every dashboard has a built-in Export PDF button. The evidence pack that used to take three days to compile is generated in seconds — Ofsted-formatted, fully up to date.
Role-gated secure access
Governors see governance data. Trust executives see the MAT view. LA contacts see only what they need. Fully isolated, fully GDPR-compliant.
Built for your exact reporting needs
MAT benchmarking, governor committee packs, Ofsted self-evaluation, LA returns — every dashboard is built to your spec, with your data, in your format.
What's included
- Custom design matched to your school or trust brand
- Live MIS data connections — SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom, iSAMS
- Tabbed navigation — Attendance, Safeguarding, SEND, Finance, Staffing
- Interactive charts — attendance trends, cohort comparisons, term-by-term
- AI-generated key highlights updated each reporting period
- One-click PDF export — governor-pack ready in seconds
- Role-gated secure login — governors see only their school's data
- Ofsted evidence trail — filtered, sorted, and formatted on demand
- Mobile responsive — works perfectly on any device
- Hosted on your Lumio platform — no extra infrastructure needed
We build dashboards for every audience
Governing Bodies
Attendance, safeguarding compliance, budget summary, exclusions — formatted for committee meetings
MAT Executive Teams
Cross-school benchmarking, trust-wide attendance, SEND register totals, staffing overview
Local Authorities
SEND returns, attendance summaries, exclusion data — in the format they require
Ofsted Preparation
Self-evaluation evidence, safeguarding audit trail, pupil outcomes — ready in minutes
SLT Weekly Reviews
Headteacher, deputy, SENCO, SBM — each gets the view relevant to their role
External Funders
Pupil premium outcomes, SEND intervention impact, programme data — live and exportable
Need a custom dashboard for your governors or trust?
Tell us what you need — we'll scope it and have a prototype in front of you within 5 working days.
AI that understands your school
Lumio uses Claude to understand your school's data — not just move it. Every morning briefing, concern summary, and governor report is generated from your actual data, not a template.
Morning briefing
Headteacher receives a plain-English summary every morning at 7am — attendance, safeguarding, cover gaps, open actions.
Concern pattern detection
Repeated concerns logged for a pupil are automatically flagged, with a summary of the pattern sent to the DSL.
Governor report drafting
Termly governor report drafted from live data — attendance trends, SEND update, exclusions, compliance checklist.
Absence parent messaging
School-branded parent messages personalised per pupil. Not a generic template — actual context from the register.
SEN progress summaries
Intervention impact summarised automatically from tracking data, ready for annual reviews and parent meetings.
Ofsted preparation
Pulls the data Ofsted typically requests — safeguarding audit trail, attendance by cohort, EHCP compliance — in seconds.
Insights always-on
Attendance trend chart, pupil progress by year group, Ofsted readiness gauge, SEND by need type donut, budget utilisation bars — no demo gate, always available.
Google Workspace + Microsoft 365 SSO
Staff sign in with existing school accounts. No separate passwords. Phase 1 with full provider configuration.
8 role-based views
Headteacher, Trust Lead, Head of Year, Teacher, SEN/SENCO, Safeguarding, Pupil Premium, Inspections — each with tailored KPIs and AI highlights.
AI-powered overview tabs
Quick Wins, Daily Tasks, Don't Miss — AI-generated from your school data, always showing, with personalised greeting using authenticated user name.
SLT Suite
Executive dashboard with attendance, safeguarding, SEND, staff, finance, school improvement, and governance — all in 8 tabs.
Overall attendance today is 94.2% — below the 96% target. Year 4 has 3 unexplained absences with no parent response. DSL has been notified.
1 new concern logged yesterday by Year 6 class teacher. Categorised as emotional wellbeing. DSL reviewed at 08:15. No further action required today.
2 staff absent today. Cover confirmed for both classes. Supply from Premier Education confirmed at 07:45. Cover spend this term: £1,840.
3 open actions: EHCP review for Thomas B. overdue by 4 days. Online safety policy review due Friday. DBS renewal for M. Patel — 8 days remaining.
Workflow Library
12 workflows. 6 modules.
Every part of your school, automated.
From the morning register to the termly governor report — Lumio has a workflow for it. Built for schools, activated in minutes, running every day.
Every team covered
How it works
Each workflow is engineered, tested, and maintained for you. Activate in your dashboard. That's it. No code. No setup calls. No spreadsheets.
Integrations
Works with the tools your school already uses
Native integrations with every major MIS, safeguarding platform, and comms tool. Connects in minutes.
SIMS
MIS
Arbor
MIS
Bromcom
MIS
iSAMS
MIS
ScholarPack
MIS
MyConcern
Safeguarding
CPOMS
Safeguarding
ParentMail
Comms
Weduc
Comms
Microsoft 365
Productivity
Google Workspace
Productivity
IRIS
HR / Finance
PS Financials
Finance
Supply Desk
Cover
FFT Aspire
Assessment
SISRA
Assessment
+ more MIS and edtech integrations added monthly
Data & Compliance
Built for UK schools
UK data centres
All pupil and staff data is processed and stored in the UK. GDPR-compliant by design. Data processing agreements provided.
KCSiE aligned
Safeguarding workflows are built to align with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Updated annually with statutory guidance.
School data expertise
We understand SIMS exports, SEND registers, safeguarding records, and governor reporting — built for schools, not adapted from business software.
Full audit trail
Every workflow run, every AI action, every data access — logged and searchable. Ofsted-ready evidence at any time.
Role-based access
SENCO sees SEND data. DSL sees safeguarding. SBM sees finance. Every user sees only what they need.
99.9% uptime SLA
School-hours reliability guaranteed. Status page publicly available. Critical workflows are monitored 24/7.
See it in action
30-minute demo. We'll walk you through the platform with workflows relevant to your school.