The School page

The School page brings together everything recorded about one school. Reach it from the Schools table of a district, or from the breadcrumbs after a drill-down. The school’s name is the heading.

The school’s details

The School record card holds what has been collected about the school: the district it belongs to, and whatever else the monitoring form asks, such as its location, its number of pupils and teachers, and the condition of its buildings.

Edit answers changes those collected answers, as opposed to Edit, which changes the school’s name.

The four tables

• Teachers: each teacher with their Role and their Teacher visits count. The name links to the teacher.
• Classes: the school’s classes with their teacher and year. A dash appears where a class has no teacher or year set.
• School Visits: Visit date (a link to the visit), the Monitor who made it, and counts of teacher visits and assessments.
• Internal Evaluations: evaluations carried out by the school itself rather than by a visiting monitor. Each one opens its own page, with the evaluator, the class and the assessments taken.

The class year is descriptive

The year groups in the impact tables come from the assessments themselves (the year question answered when a pupil is assessed), not from the class record. Filling in a class’s teacher and year keeps the register readable, but leaving them empty does not remove anything from the reports.

Actions

• Edit: change the school’s name.
• Merge: combine this school with another in the same district, for when the same school was recorded twice.
• Delete: remove the school, after a confirmation.
• Add teacher and Add class: add to the tables directly. These two are administrator actions; the rest need a manager or project staff.

Merge rather than delete a duplicate

When the same school exists twice, merging keeps one record and moves the other’s teachers, visits and registered classes onto it. A class that already exists on the survivor with the same name and year is not duplicated: its pupils and internal evaluations join the survivor’s class. Deleting the duplicate instead would take its visits with it, and those visits really happened.

Both are permanent: there is no undo for a merge or a delete, which is why both ask for confirmation first.

See Deduplication overview for finding duplicates systematically.

Reading a school in one pass

The four tables answer four different questions, and read in order they give a picture of the school quickly:

1. Teachers tells you how big the school is and who is there.
2. Classes tells you whether the registers are being kept up to date, because empty teacher or year cells show here first.
3. School Visits tells you how much external monitoring the school receives, and when it last did.
4. Internal Evaluations tells you whether the school is doing its own quality assurance.

A school with many teachers, few visits and no internal evaluations is one nobody is watching, from either direction.

Next: The Teacher page