Compass School Management System

Compass Education Pty Ltd provides a cloud-based school management information system, founded in 2010, that the company says is used by more than 5,000 schools and 4 million users worldwide. It serves independent, government and Catholic schools in Australia and operates regional sites for the UK and Ireland, where more than 100 schools already use it.

The platform has more than 40 integrated modules grouped into school administration (attendance, dashboards, people records, room bookings, staff development), teaching and learning (tasks and feedback, skills tracking, semester reports), wellbeing (behaviour, sick bay and health records, parent notifications), community engagement (enrolments, parent portal and mobile app, news feed, messaging, alumni), activity management (events, co-curricular programmes, ticketing, duty changes) and finance and billing (general ledger, AR/AP, fixed assets, receipting and online payment reconciliation).

• School administration: attendance and absence tracking, dashboards, room bookings and staff development.
• Teaching and learning: tasks and feedback, skills tracking, course overviews and semester reports.
• Wellbeing: behaviour monitoring, sick bay and health records with role-based confidentiality.
• Community engagement: enrolments, parent portal and mobile app, news feed, messaging and alumni tools.
• Activity management: events, co-curricular programmes, clubs, ticketing and duty changes.
• Finance and billing: general ledger, AR/AP, fixed assets, receipting and online payment reconciliation.

A private K-12 school in Vietnam could combine attendance, learning tasks, semester reports and fee payments in one system. An international school could manage co-curricular clubs, ticketed events and parent consent through the activity module. A school nurse team could keep sick bay and health records with role-based confidentiality and automatic parent notifications.

Consolidates many separate school systems into one platform; the company cites 50% of systems consolidated and 90% of teaching and learning tasks in one place. Raises parent engagement through the portal and app, with 90% parent portal engagement reported. Keeps wellbeing and health records confidential with role-based access. Offers 99.98% uptime and finance tools that reconcile online fee payments.

Schools want to reduce the number of separate systems for attendance, learning, wellbeing, payments and parent communication, and governments are creating approved MIS frameworks such as Ireland's. In Vietnam, private and international schools face rising parent expectations for app-based communication and online fee payment, and need one platform across academic and finance teams.

Compass Education Pty Ltd, founded in 2010; CEO John de la Motte. Appointed to Ireland's HEAnet-run SMIS multi-supplier framework after contract signature on 22 May 2025; more than 100 Irish schools already use Compass. Acquired Music Monitor in October 2025.