By TSO EducationEvery lesson covered.Every pound accounted for.
Curriculum.School turns teaching requirements into costed staffing and deployment scenarios, so school and trust leaders see coverage, cost and impact before anything is signed off.
Trusted by schools, trusts and local authorities
Staffing plans live in spreadsheets. Answers don't.
Most schools and trusts plan staffing across disconnected spreadsheets, assumptions and meeting notes. The plan exists, but the moment a governor, a CFO or an inspector asks a hard question, it can't answer back.
- Do we actually have enough staff to cover the curriculum?
- What does this model really cost, beyond headline salary?
- What changes if one person leaves or the budget tightens?
- Which of our schools are planning-ready, and which aren't?
From what must be taught to what it costs.
Five connected layers, pinned to one board. Open any one to bring its screen forward, from the timetable to the trust dashboard.
Your whole organisation, in one place.
Set up your trust and its schools once, with their year groups and terms. Everything else in the plan is built on top of this, and rolls forward to the next year automatically.
- Trust, schools and academic years
- One login across every school
- Rolls forward each year
The teaching that sets the demand.
Lay out what is actually taught: the subjects, how many lessons each one needs, and the classes that run. This is the demand every staffing decision then has to meet.
- Faculties, subjects and lesson allocations
- Demand set per year group
- Fixed before anyone is deployed
Turn assumptions into scenarios.
Model your staff as side-by-side scenarios: this year’s team, a leaner budget version, a growth version. Compare headcount, curriculum coverage and true cost before you commit to anything.
- Unlimited what-ifs, one marked active
- Full cost per person, not just salary
- Duplicate, compare, reverse
Not who you employ, but how they’re deployed.
Place every teacher’s hours against the timetable in one grid. Gaps, clashes and anyone over-loaded show up straight away, so you know the plan will actually work in September.
- Every teaching and support hour, placed
- Gaps and over-allocation surface at once
- Export to CSV and XLSX
Numbers with context, not just numbers.
See the figures that matter: cost per lesson, contact ratios, which schools are ready. Compare each one against schools like it, so when someone asks “is that high?” you have an answer.
- Deployment-ready status at a glance
- Benchmarked by phase and region
- One school to the whole trust
organisation
what the job advert says
what payroll actually bears
- Employers NI£9,326.55
- Employers pension£19,266.36
The real cost, not the headline salary.
Every staff record carries NI, pension, TLR, SEN and other allowances, so when you compare scenarios you're comparing what the payroll will actually bear, and cost surfaces before decisions are locked in.
- Pay scales for teaching and support contracts
- Bespoke forecast pay scales, with in-year amendments
- Maternity leave costed automatically
- Per-lesson and per-unit cost, not just totals
- Governance-ready numbers for the next finance meeting
Numbers with context, not just numbers.
Every metric is benchmarked by phase, region and academic year, London-weighted where it matters, so "is that high?" gets an answer.
Teacher Contact Ratio
vs previous available year
Average Teacher Cost
vs previous available year
Pupil Adult Ratio
vs previous available year
Pupil Teacher Ratio
vs previous available year
Average Class Size
vs previous available year
Every school. One view. Same questions, same answers.
The trust dashboard rolls every school up into one picture, who's deployment-ready, where cost per lesson is drifting, which staffing plans are still assumptions. Filter by phase, region, subject or role; save the views you return to.
- Deployment-ready status across all schools
- Full recharge across the trust, school by school
- Compare mode with delta metrics between schools and years
- Bar, line and scatter views over any metric
Serious about your data.
Built for the standards school and trust leaders are already held to.
- UK-builtHosted and run in the UK
- Encrypted at restYour data, scrambled on disk
- Optional 2FA & SSOSign in the way IT prefers
- Per-school access controlPeople see only their own
- Governance-ready exportsEvidence that stands up
- Multi-tenant by organisationEvery trust walled off
Built for everyone who has to defend the plan.
Single schools, multi-academy trusts and local authorities, and the consultants who advise them.
Schools
One school, one defensible plan. See whether the curriculum is covered, what the staffing really costs, and what changes if the budget tightens, before you commit.
Book a demoTrusts & LAs
Consistent visibility across every school you're responsible for, which are deployment-ready, where cost per lesson is drifting, and which staffing plans are still assumptions.
Book a demoConsultants
Work across organisations, model costed options same-day, and leave behind exportable evidence that stands up.
Book a demoSimple licences, no procurement maze.
£499 per licence for schools and consultants. Bespoke for trusts and local authorities. Every plan includes the AI Companion.
Individual
Single school deployment
- 3 users included
- 1 school
- 5 staffing scenarios
- 5 deployment scenarios per staffing scenario
- AI Companion
Consultant
Working across organisations
- 1 user included
- Flexible schools
- Flexible staffing scenarios
- Flexible deployment scenarios
- AI Companion
Organisation
LA or MAT wide
- Bespoke users
- Bespoke schools
- Bespoke staffing scenarios
- Bespoke deployment scenarios
- AI Companion
Questions, answered.
Is Curriculum.School an MIS?
No. Curriculum.School is a planning, modelling and benchmarking tool, and it doesn't replace your MIS. It answers the questions your MIS can't: whether the curriculum is covered, what the staffing really costs, and how the plan compares.
Does it work for primary and secondary schools?
Yes, both. Primary planning is class-led; secondary planning is organised around faculties and subjects. The workflows, matrices and benchmarks adapt to the phase of each school.
How long does setup take?
We do it, not you. Send us raw exports from the systems you already use and we configure the platform around them, from a single school to a whole trust. There is no implementation project to staff and nobody to second to it. Your structure, curriculum and staff are in place before your first session, and each new year rolls forward from what is already there.
What does it cost?
A school licence is £499, a consultant licence is £499, and organisation-wide pricing for trusts and local authorities is bespoke. Every plan includes the AI Companion.
See Curriculum.School in action.
Book a 30-minute demo: we'll walk a worked example trust and school, show coverage, deployment and cost, and talk through how it fits your setup.