School management software for international and bilingual schools opening, growing or adding a campus. Attendance, assessment, reporting and safeguarding start with a coherent structure instead of being invented one file at a time.
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Schools and partners we work with
The situation
Before the first term, somebody has to decide how attendance, assessment, reporting, safeguarding, staff leave and parent communication will work.
Someone borrows a report template, rebuilds an old gradebook and downloads an attendance sheet. By year two, the school depends on decisions nobody designed.
When practice has never been made explicit, expansion means copying habits rather than setting a standard that another campus can actually follow.
Two products
For schools
Everything a school records about a student, from the first register to the final report. Attendance, assessment, reporting, safeguarding, HR, invoicing and the whole-school calendar, all reading from the same records.
For language schools
Built for language schools, where an enquiry arrives on WhatsApp at nine at night and gets answered at noon the next day, by which point the parent has messaged two other schools. FirstEnroll puts every enquiry in one shared inbox and does the chasing for you.
Custom includes FirstEnroll, if you want admissions and the whole school running on the same records.
Admissions
Shared inbox
What is inside
Enable only the modules your school uses, so each role sees a focused workspace. Module availability depends on the selected plan.
A weighted gradebook where you define the categories and the weights. It will not save until the weights add up to 100 per cent.
Log an incident, group related ones into a case, and route alerts by category to the right role automatically. Every note records who read it.
A weekly grid per section, colour coded by subject, showing teacher and room in every slot. Look up any teacher, section or classroom.
School-branded invoices with line items, discounts and a payment ledger. Define a billable product once and reuse it.
Next lesson, today's register, the attendance figure so far and the daily bulletin, on the screen a teacher opens first.
Mark a register period by period, or set a whole class present in one click. Every student shows their pattern across the day's eight periods.
Report cycles with separate deadlines for teachers and senior leadership, a reusable statement bank, and a live view of who has actually finished.
The whole academic year on one screen, August to July. One school calendar rather than one per department.
Staff records, documents and dependents, plus leave requests that staff file themselves and managers approve from a queue.
Who is in school right now, with linked parent contacts and a button to message them. Absences can be logged in advance.
Generate a room layout, then drag students onto seats. Save it, print it, and hand it to whoever is covering.
See it working
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Why First IMS
Pricing
Both Core and Growth plans are priced per student per month. Larger and multi-campus schools are quoted on Custom. Published rates are shown below, and your written quote confirms the price and terms for your school.
$0.75
per student, per month
Attendance, student and staff records, portals and assessment.
See what is included$1.00
per student, per month
Everything in Core, plus HR, NEST safeguarding and invoicing.
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multi-campus and white label
Everything in Growth, plus multi-campus, white label and FirstEnroll.
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One system for running a school. Attendance, student and staff records, assessment, reports, safeguarding, HR, invoicing and parent communication, all reading from the same records rather than from separate files that have to be reconciled.
Core is $0.75 per student, per month and Growth is $1.00 per student, per month. Larger and multi-campus schools are quoted on the Custom plan. Published rates are shown on the pricing page, and your written quote confirms the price and terms for your school.
Standard onboarding and agreed data import are included. We assess your exports first and confirm what can be migrated before you commit. Unusual data recovery or bespoke transformation is scoped separately.
First IMS does not currently use generative AI in student-data workflows. Any future AI feature will be introduced transparently, with clear data-handling controls and school approval.
NEST is a module inside First IMS rather than a separate tool, so a safeguarding note is attached to the student record but visible only to the roles that should see it. Every note records who has read it. Access is configurable per school.
Yes, on the Custom plan, which also covers white labelling. If you run two sites today and a third next year, say so early and we will set the structure up for that from the start.
Yes. We will set you up on a demo school with your own subjects and year groups rather than ours, so you are looking at something that resembles your timetable. Ask for a demo and we reply within one working day.
Tell us what you are planning, where your current setup is breaking, or how the next campus should fit the first. We will set up a useful demo without student names or other personal data.