Lumio for Schools
Built for every team in your school
Your school, fully connected.
Lumio connects your MIS, safeguarding tools, and communication platforms — automating the admin that eats your team's time and surfacing the data that matters.
Built for primary, secondary, and MAT leadership. From 200 to 2,000 pupils.
How it works
Up and running in under 30 minutes
Scope your MIS sync
Tell us which MIS you use — Arbor, SIMS, Bromcom or another. MIS sync is on the integration roadmap and we will build the connector that fits your school first.
Activate your workflows
Browse 12 workflow categories — from absence alerts to governor reports. Each one shows exactly what it does before you switch it on.
Get hours back every week
Lumio is designed to run in the background — automating the chasing, compiling and re-entering that eats your team's time.
Modules
Purpose-built for every school team
Whether you're in attendance, safeguarding, SEND, or SLT — every module works together in Lumio.
Attendance
6 workflows included
From the morning register to persistent absence — every step automated. Parents notified in 60 seconds. DSL alerted if no response. Weekly and termly reports generated without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
Absence marked → parent SMS and email sent within 60 seconds, school-branded.
Parent doesn't reply by 9:30am → DSL automatically alerted.
Pupil hits 90% threshold → HoY and SENCO notified automatically.
Auto-generated every Monday at 7am, ready for SLT.
Termly summary formatted for governors — no manual compilation.
Monthly breakdown by year group with traffic light indicators.
Integrations for Attendance
Integrations are on our roadmap — see /schools/integrations for the first wave and what we are considering next.
What you get
- Live dashboard updated in real time
- Workflows run automatically — no one needs to trigger them
- Alerts sent to the right person instantly
- Full audit trail of every action — Ofsted-ready
- AI-generated summaries, reports, and communications
Live dashboards for governors,
trusts, and the LA.
Give your governors, trust leadership, and local authority their own real-time window into school performance — without a single manual report ever again.
Lumio builds fully custom dashboards for MAT executive teams, governing bodies, and LA reporting — pulling live data from your MIS, safeguarding tools, and finance systems. What used to take your SBM two days to compile is now available 24/7 at the click of a button.
Live MIS connection (roadmap)
Designed to pull live data from Arbor, SIMS or Bromcom — attendance, SEND register, exclusions, staffing. MIS sync is on the integration roadmap and will ship with the first founding schools.
One-click Ofsted packs
Every dashboard has a built-in Export PDF button. The evidence pack that used to take days to compile is generated in seconds — Ofsted-formatted.
Role-gated secure access
Governors see governance data. Trust executives see the MAT view. LA contacts see only what they need. Built around UK GDPR.
Built for your exact reporting needs
MAT benchmarking, governor committee packs, Ofsted self-evaluation, LA returns — every dashboard is built to your spec, with your data, in your format.
What's included
- Custom design matched to your school or trust brand
- MIS data connections on the integration roadmap — Arbor, SIMS, Bromcom first
- Tabbed navigation — Attendance, Safeguarding, SEND, Finance, Staffing
- Interactive charts — attendance trends, cohort comparisons, term-by-term
- AI-generated key highlights updated each reporting period
- One-click PDF export — governor-pack ready in seconds
- Role-gated secure login — governors see only their school's data
- Ofsted evidence trail — filtered, sorted, and formatted on demand
- Mobile responsive — works perfectly on any device
- Hosted on your Lumio platform — no extra infrastructure needed
We build dashboards for every audience
Governing Bodies
Attendance, safeguarding compliance, budget summary, exclusions — formatted for committee meetings
MAT Executive Teams
Cross-school benchmarking, trust-wide attendance, SEND register totals, staffing overview
Local Authorities
SEND returns, attendance summaries, exclusion data — in the format they require
Ofsted Preparation
Self-evaluation evidence, safeguarding audit trail, pupil outcomes — ready in minutes
SLT Weekly Reviews
Headteacher, deputy, SENCO, SBM — each gets the view relevant to their role
External Funders
Pupil premium outcomes, SEND intervention impact, programme data — live and exportable
Need a custom dashboard for your governors or trust?
Tell us what you need — we'll scope it and have a prototype in front of you within 5 working days.
AI that understands your school
Lumio uses Claude to understand your school's data — not just move it. Every morning briefing, concern summary, and governor report is generated from your actual data, not a template.
Morning briefing
Headteacher receives a plain-English summary every morning at 7am — attendance, safeguarding, cover gaps, open actions.
Concern pattern detection
Repeated concerns logged for a pupil are automatically flagged, with a summary of the pattern sent to the DSL.
Governor report drafting
Termly governor report drafted from live data — attendance trends, SEND update, exclusions, compliance checklist.
Absence parent messaging
School-branded parent messages personalised per pupil. Not a generic template — actual context from the register.
SEN progress summaries
Intervention impact summarised automatically from tracking data, ready for annual reviews and parent meetings.
Ofsted preparation
Pulls the data Ofsted typically requests — safeguarding audit trail, attendance by cohort, EHCP compliance — in seconds.
Insights always-on
Attendance trend chart, pupil progress by year group, Ofsted readiness gauge, SEND by need type donut, budget utilisation bars — no demo gate, always available.
Google Workspace + Microsoft 365 SSO
Staff sign in with existing school accounts. No separate passwords. Phase 1 with full provider configuration.
8 role-based views
Headteacher, Trust Lead, Head of Year, Teacher, SEN/SENCO, Safeguarding, Pupil Premium, Inspections — each with tailored KPIs and AI highlights.
AI-powered overview tabs
Quick Wins, Daily Tasks, Don't Miss — AI-generated from your school data, always showing, with personalised greeting using authenticated user name.
SLT Suite
Executive dashboard with attendance, safeguarding, SEND, staff, finance, school improvement, and governance — all in 8 tabs.
Overall attendance today is 94.2% — below the 96% target. Year 4 has 3 unexplained absences with no parent response. DSL has been notified.
1 new concern logged yesterday by Year 6 class teacher. Categorised as emotional wellbeing. DSL reviewed at 08:15. No further action required today.
2 staff absent today. Cover confirmed for both classes. Supply from Premier Education confirmed at 07:45. Cover spend this term: £1,840.
3 open actions: EHCP review for Thomas B. overdue by 4 days. Online safety policy review due Friday. DBS renewal for M. Patel — 8 days remaining.
Workflow Library
12 workflow categories. 50+ automations.
Every part of your school, automated.
From the morning register to the termly governor report — Lumio has a workflow for it. Built for schools, activated in minutes, running every day.
Every team covered
How it works
Each workflow is engineered, tested, and maintained for you. Activate in your dashboard. That's it. No code. No setup calls. No spreadsheets.
Integrations
Integration roadmap
Lumio Schools is pre-launch. The first integrations to ship are MIS sync (Arbor / SIMS / Bromcom), SSO (Google Workspace / Microsoft 365) and safeguarding (MyConcern / CPOMS). The full plan lives on the integrations page.
See the integration roadmapData & Compliance
Built for UK schools
UK GDPR by design
Lumio is built around UK GDPR from day one. Data hosting and DPA terms are confirmed with each founding school during onboarding.
KCSiE-informed
Safeguarding workflows are built around the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
School data first
Built for schools — SEND registers, safeguarding records, governor reporting and MIS rostering — not adapted from business software.
Full audit trail
Every workflow run, every AI action, every data access — logged and searchable. Designed to be Ofsted-ready.
Role-based access
SENCO sees SEND data. DSL sees safeguarding. SBM sees finance. Every user sees only what they need.
Direct from the founder
Lumio is built solo today. Founding schools deal with the person making the decisions, not a sales funnel.
See it in action
30-minute demo. We'll walk you through the platform with workflows relevant to your school.