For Australian independent schools
The student record engine.
One record per person, read every night, and a straight answer whenever you ask it a question.
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The finding
It tells you which students need attention, with the evidence attached.
Last night, Kestrel read 1,184 student records.
Ella M.
Needs attention
Attendance has moved from 96% to 81% over four weeks. Three of the last five absences are unexplained. Two wellbeing entries in the same period, logged by different staff who have not spoken to each other.
Week
MTWTF
Rate
Wk 4 · 17 Feb
96%
Wk 5 · 24 Feb
90%
Wk 6 · 2 Mar
85%
Wk 7 · 9 Mar
81%
Unexplained
Explained
Present
Asked to leave English early, said she felt unwell. Nurse found nothing presenting. Second time this fortnight.
Logged by R. Kaur · Classroom teacher · Confidentiality: pastoral
Arrived late, visibly upset, declined to say why. Settled after ten minutes in the house room.
Logged by D. Whitlam · Head of house · Confidentiality: pastoral
No dashboard to remember to check. The finding comes to you, and it brings its working.
The question
Type a question. Get the rows that answer it.
Answering this today
01Email the one person who understands the report writer.Mon 09:14
02Wait.
03Receive a CSV. The date range covers the whole year when you asked for this term.Wed 16:02
04Ask again, more specifically.Wed 16:20
05Get the answer. Two of the students have already left.Thu 11:30
Three days
and someone else’s week
Answering it in Kestrel
Which Year 11 students dropped below 90% attendance this term?
0.4 seconds
and no-one else’s
| Student | House | Term rate | Change | Last unexplained |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nguyen, Thi | Barton | 78% | −14 | 6 Mar |
| Okonkwo, Daniel | Macarthur | 83% | −11 | 2 Mar |
| Petrides, Anna | Barton | 86% | −6 | — |
| Whitfield, Sam | Forrest | 88% | −4 | 28 Feb |
No report writer. No specialist. No support ticket. No waiting until Thursday.
Admissions
Your admissions CRM is a second copy of your student record.
Two systems, two versions of the same family, and a reconciliation job no-one wants. Kestrel's pipeline is the record the student then keeps for the next thirteen years.
- 01Enquiry
- 02Tour
- 03Application
- 04Interview
- 05Offer
- 06Enrolled
Waitlists with the priority rules independent schools use: sibling, alumni, faith, date of application. When they accept, nothing is retyped. The record continues.
Admissions in detailThe day it gives your staff
Built for the twenty seconds a teacher has.
A roll that opens already knowing about the room change. The medical alert on the class list itself. A wellbeing note logged without leaving the page you were on.
9 English · Period 3
Room changed → H12
Ahmed, Yusuf
Byrne, Charlotte
Anaphylaxis · plan on file
M., Ella
Flagged overnight
Zhou, Michael
Staff sentiment decides whether a system is used properly or worked around. We designed for the second Tuesday of term.
The rest of it
Everything else a school day needs is here. We are not going to spend your afternoon on it.
AttendancePer-lesson rolls from the live timetable, your state's code set, the part-day rule applied.
AssessmentMarkbook, semester reports with proofing and approval, continuous reporting to parents.
WellbeingTyped entries with confidentiality tiers, alerts surfaced where staff will see them, escalation to the right person.
MedicalConditions register, action plans with expiry tracking, medication log, sick bay.
PortalsParents and students, with a native app, and per-guardian routing that honours court orders.
TimetablePublished timetables and daily variations in over LISS, from Edval or Timetabling Solutions.
The returnsCensus, Address Collection, STATS and NCCD, generated from the record you have been keeping all year.
If something you need is not here yet, we will tell you before you sign.
Architecture and security
Your current system was specified before the iPhone.
Passkeys and SSO
Against Entra ID and Google Workspace. Phishing-resistant sign-in is included for all roles at no extra cost.
Role-based access
Down to the record class: wellbeing, medical and child-safety records are each governed separately.
Audit logging
Who saw and changed what. You run the query yourself.
Australian hosting
Stated residency, onshore support.
A documented read API
Public, no partner gate. Wonde source and OneRoster export from day one.
ST4S
Being built against the Safer Technologies 4 Schools Tier 1 requirements. The gap analysis is tracked as ordinary work on our board, and we will show it to you.
The boundary
We are not trying to be your finance system.
Kestrel holds the family and fee-payer model: who pays, split percentages between separated parents, sibling links, scholarships, and the enrolment events that trigger a charge. That data belongs on the student record.
The ledger does not. Neither does payroll, timetable construction, or your alumni database.
We holdWe hand to
Family, fee-payer and charge dataXero · Business Central · TechnologyOne · Edstart
Students, staff, rooms, the published timetableEdval · Timetabling Solutions V10, over LISS
IdentityEntra ID · Google Workspace
Students, classes and enrolments, outboundWonde · OneRoster · School Data Sync
Graduating cohortsYour advancement platform, exported cleanly
Migration
The migration is the risk. We treat it that way.
A trial migration you validate before anything is committed. Historical records brought across in full. A read-only archive of the system you are leaving, so nothing depends on keeping an old licence alive.
We will tell you which of your data will not come across cleanly, before you sign.
How migration worksBring your school's record together.
Forty minutes, your data model, your questions.