Product
One record. Everything a school day asks of it.
Kestrel is one record per person, with the school’s work happening against it. This is what that covers, grouped by how much of it you will not find elsewhere.
What you will not find in the system you have.
Four capabilities that no Australian incumbent currently ships. If Kestrel is worth the disruption of switching, it is because of these.
The overnight readEvery night Kestrel reads the whole record and names the students who need attention, with the evidence assembled behind each finding. Not a dashboard you have to remember to open.In detail
Ask a questionType a question in plain language and get the rows that answer it, with columns that follow the question. No report writer, no specialist, no support ticket.In detail
AdmissionsA real pipeline of enquiry, tour, application, interview, offer and enrolled, on the record the student then keeps for thirteen years. No second CRM to reconcile.In detail
An open edgeDocumented public API with no partner gate, a Wonde source, OneRoster and School Data Sync, and a published boundary saying what Kestrel will never build.In detail
The record itself.
The part each student information system claims. Ours is worth reading about only because the four capabilities above depend on it being modelled properly.
The person and the family
Student and family recordOne record per person across each role they hold. Households, guardianship types, per-parent addresses, siblings, emergency contacts, and the state and national identifiers that follow a student for life.Detail page to come
Fee-payer and billing dataWho pays and in what proportion, split arrangements between separated parents, sibling discounts, scholarship flags, and the enrolment events that trigger a charge. Kestrel holds this; your finance platform holds the ledger.In detail
Parenting ordersCourt orders enforced as a property of the relationship. Reports, messages and portal access route accordingly.In detail
The school day
AttendancePer-lesson rolls from the live timetable, your state’s approved code set, the part-day rule applied, and same-day follow-up on unexplained absence.Detail page to come
Assessment and reportingMarkbook, semester reports with proofing and approval workflows, continuous reporting to parents, and a permanent archive of everything published.Detail page to come
Timetable and daily organisationPublished timetables and daily variations ingested over LISS from Edval or Timetabling Solutions, flowing into rolls and portals the same morning.In detail
Co-curricularActivity rosters and seasons, attendance outside the academic timetable, excursions with consent and payment, and working-with-children currency on the coaches and volunteers attached to them.Detail page to come
Care
WellbeingTyped entries with real confidentiality tiers, alerts surfaced where staff will see them, escalation to the right person, and the NCCD adjustment register with its evidence intact.In detail
MedicalConditions register with severity, action plans with expiry tracking and renewal prompts, medication administration log, sick bay visits, and immunisation status.Detail page to come
The surfaces people use
Parent and student portalsAttendance, reports, timetable, messages and payments in one signed-in place, with a native app, and per-guardian routing that honours the orders on file.Detail page to come
Staff portalThe teacher’s day: rolls that already know about the room change, alerts on the class list rather than three clicks into a profile, and a wellbeing note logged without leaving the page.In detail
CommunicationsEmail, SMS and push to families, groups and cohorts, logged against the person record, with calendars, digital consent and interview bookings.Detail page to come
What the record owes the government
The statutory returnsAugust census, the Address Collection that sets your capacity-to-contribute funding, STATS attendance, NCCD census fields, and your state board’s submissions, generated from the record you have been keeping all year.Detail page to come
SubstantiationThe evidence behind a figure, assembled rather than reconstructed, for census post-enumeration and NCCD audit.Detail page to come
And what it is not.
Kestrel does not want your general ledger, your payroll, your timetable solver or your alumni database. That is a design decision rather than a gap, and the reasoning, along with who we hand each of those to, is published in full.
See it against your own record.
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