Student information system · Australian independent schools
The student information system that tells you who needs attention.
Every night Kestrel reads the whole record. Each morning it names the students who need attention, with the evidence attached. Ask it anything and get the rows behind the answer.
Flagged 04:12Ella M. · Year 9Needs attention
The finding
It tells you which students need attention, with the evidence attached.
While you were asleep
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 people 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
Admissions
Due today
Two enrolment offers lapse today.
Medical
No current plan
Three students whose asthma has no current action plan.
The finding comes to you, and it brings its working.
The question
Type a question. Get the details to answer it.
The answer arrives in under a second, with the rows behind it.
| 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 |
The product
Real screens from Kestrel.
These are real screens from the application. The data in them is invented; the screens are not.
One person, however many roles they hold.
A parent who is also a staff member and an old scholar is one record with three roles.
The person record in detail
Know which medical plans have expired before anyone needs them.
Kestrel is built around three cases: the anaphylaxis plan that expired in March, the dose no-one logged, and the child starting in three weeks whose plan has not arrived.
Medical in detail
Excursions, sport and activities, with every consent on record.
Every activity raises two questions later. Which adults were with the children? Who gave permission? Kestrel answers both.
Co-curricular in detail
Every message checks who may be told what.
Each message a school sends leaves through a single path that checks who may be told what. Nothing is allowed to go around it, and that is checked when the code is built.
Communications in detail
Census, STATS and NCCD, produced from the record you keep all year.
Census, Address Collection, STATS and NCCD are produced from the record you have been keeping all year, and stay defensible eighteen months later.
Statutory returns in detail
Built for the twenty seconds a teacher has.
A roll opens already knowing about the room change. The medical alert appears on the class list itself. A wellbeing note can be logged without leaving the page you were on.
Attendance in detail
9 English · Period 3
Room changed → H12
Ahmed, Yusuf
Byrne, Charlotte
Anaphylaxis · plan on file
M., Ella
Flagged overnight
Zhou, Michael
Admissions
Admissions on the record the student keeps for thirteen years.
Kestrel's pipeline is the record the student then keeps for the next thirteen years.
- 01Enquiry
- 02Tour
- 03Application
- 04Offer
- 05Enrolled
When a family accepts an offer, nothing is retyped. The record continues.
Admissions in detailArchitecture and the boundary
Secure by design, from sign-in to audit.
Passkeys and SSO
Passkeys, and single sign-on against Entra ID and Google Workspace, included 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, on each sensitive record.
Australian hosting
Stated residency, onshore support.
An API for your systems
School-issued, scoped tokens, and class rosters for Wonde, OneRoster and School Data Sync.
Connected to the systems you already run.
Kestrel holds the student record. Timetabling, identity and the tools that read your class lists connect to it.
We holdWe hand to
Students, staff, rooms, the published timetableEdval · Timetabling Solutions V10, over LISS
IdentityEntra ID · Google Workspace
Students, classes and enrolments, outboundWonde · OneRoster · School Data Sync
AlumniYour advancement platform, over the API
SIS Health Check
How healthy is your current student information system?
Twenty-one quick questions across seven areas, from one record to security. You get a score for each, your strongest area, your top priority, and a personalised report by email.
Take the 5-minute Health Check
Free · No phone number needed · No obligation
Moving to Kestrel
Start with admissions, or replace your SIS.
Start with admissions. Run enquiries, tours, applications, offers and enrolment in Kestrel, under your school’s own name. Each new student goes on to your current system as they enrol. Nothing else changes yet.
Move the rest when you’re ready. When the time suits you, the rest of the record follows. Your applicants and families are already in Kestrel, so nothing is entered twice.
Founding schools
Become a founding school.
We’re working closely with a small number of founding schools. They help shape what Kestrel does next. Founding schools can begin with admissions and help shape how Kestrel works beside their current system.
Talk about becoming a founding schoolSee Kestrel answer your own questions.
Start with the eight-minute film. Then, if you’d like, forty minutes with us on your questions. Migration is included, and pricing is quoted for your size of school.