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The System That Just Works.
Why fragmented systems quietly cost thousands of staff hours a year, and what one platform changes. For heads, bursars and governors.
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School Management. Simpler.
ONE SCHOOL.
EVERYTHING CONNECTED.
One platform. Every department. One source of truth. The operating system trusted by 700+ independent schools across three continents.
G30Trusted by G30 member schools, including a founding member of the world’s most influential independent schools network
“Finally, we have one ecosystem that manages all aspects of our school, from students and parents to alumni. We can highly recommend Ed-admin — and their support is phenomenal.”
The G30 connection
Two G30 member schools, including a founding member, run their entire operation on Ed-admin.
When the world’s most influential independent schools choose a system to run everything, that choice says more than any feature list. See the schools ›
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What is Ed-admin?
The whole platform in one short overview: one database, every department, and one app with four portals for parents, staff, students and alumni.
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Ed-admin AI
Intelligence built into the core.
Ed-admin AI is not an add-on. It is an integrated layer inside the Ed-admin engine that turns your entire school database into a smart, conversational assistant. Staff, parents and students get instant answers, real-time insights and clear guidance through natural language.
- Smarter staff workflows.
- Clearer parent communication.
- Stronger student support.
All powered directly from the Ed-admin core.
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The hidden cost of fragmentation
It’s the Friday before end-of-term reports are due. Your Head of Finance hasn’t left her desk.
Not because the data is wrong, but because the data is in three different places. Admissions live in one system. Finance lives in another. The gradebook is somewhere else entirely. She knows how to pull it together. She’s done it every term for four years.
And the worst part: she no longer even notices it’s a problem.
The interface
Too many screens. Too many clicks. Staff work around it every day.
The dependency
Two people understand how it works. What happens when one leaves?
The report cards
Every change needs a vendor call. Every cycle takes longer than it should.
The access
Your staff can’t work from home. The system lives in a cupboard.
The most expensive school management system you will ever run is not the one that fails. It is the one that works, just not quite well enough, and has quietly trained your staff to compensate for everything it can’t do.
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What one system actually changes
Not features. Outcomes.
Finance
When admissions updates an enrolment, finance sees it. Instantly.
Admissions
Entered once. Visible everywhere. No one re-enters anything.
Report cards
Custom-built for your school. No fee, no waiting.
Parents
The parent app is included. It goes live. The office phone goes quiet.
Access
Browser-based. No server room. No VPN. Work from anywhere.
Reporting
One source of truth. Any authorised person, any time.
Proof, not promises
Trusted where it matters most.
70% of South African premium independent schools run on Ed-admin.
A market leadership position built over 25 years, school by school, renewal by renewal.
Two G30 member schools, including a founding member, run their entire operation on Ed-admin.
The G30: the global network of the world’s most influential independent schools.
Annual agreements. Because we back ourselves.
A school that wants to leave should be able to. A school that stays should stay because the system earns it, not because the contract says so.
“Changing systems is scary. But Ed-admin delivered on all fronts.”
How we work
The switch is easier than staying.
That is what surprises schools most. Not that Ed-admin is dramatically more feature-rich, but that moving was easier than another year of workarounds.
Dedicated consultant
One person owns your implementation, start to finish.
Migration
Your data moves with zero loss and minimal disruption.
Training
Your team is confident before you go live, not after.
Go live
A managed cutover, timed around your school calendar.
Support
People who understand schools, not a ticket queue.
Success
Within one term, the Friday problem quietly disappears.
The platform
Every department. One dashboard. This is the real product.
Admissions, academics, assessment, finance, HR, communications, boarding and more: live, accurate and in one place. No mock-ups, no concept screens: what you see here is what your staff will use.
- One record per student: no duplication, no silos
- Real-time dashboards for confident decision-making
- Browser-based and cloud-hosted: no server room, no VPN
- One app, four portals: parents, staff, students and alumni
Why schools choose Ed-admin
Three promises. Kept for 25 years.
Flexibility
Annual agreements, configurable workflows and reporting shaped around how your school works. The system adapts to your school, never the other way round.
Service excellence
A dedicated consultant, support people who know schools by name, and a roadmap that still moves. The support that felt personal — still is.
All-in-one platform
Fifty modules, one app with four portals, one database. Everything included, nothing bolted on, and no integration bills hiding in year two.
Resources
Research first. Talk when you’re ready.
Buying Guide
Switching MIS without the migration headache
What a zero-data-loss migration actually looks like, step by step, from kickoff to go-live. Handled for you.
See how it works ›Case Study
How St Andrews College unified every department on one platform
Cleaner data, instant reporting, and staff time back where it belongs: with students.
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A 30-minute conversation. No pitch. Just a practical look at whether, and how, Ed-admin could work for your school.
Book a personalised walkthroughThe schools that moved describe it the same way: as the thing they wished they’d done sooner.