At EvaluateMySchool, we know that strong attendance is a cornerstone of student success. Our Attendance Self-evaluation tool helps schools take a clear, honest look at the systems and strategies they have in place to drive attendance—so that every student is supported to show up, every day.
Whether you’re looking to refine your current approach or identify areas for significant change, our framework offers a structured, evidence-based review built around six key dimensions:
🔍 Data and Targeted Support
Evaluate how effectively your school uses attendance data to identify patterns, track progress, and deliver targeted interventions for students at risk of persistent absence. Are the right people seeing the right data—and acting on it?
🌱 Culture
Is excellent attendance seen as everyone’s responsibility? This section explores how your school promotes a culture that values attendance across staff, students, and families—and how those values are communicated and reinforced.
🎓 Senior Attendance Champion
A strong attendance strategy starts at the top. Here, you’ll reflect on the leadership and accountability structures in place, including the role and impact of your senior attendance lead or champion.
⚙️ Processes and Systems
From daily registration to escalation pathways, this section helps you assess how well your operational systems support consistent attendance and rapid response to concerns.
🤝 Relationships and Communication
Good attendance is built on trust. This part of the evaluation explores how effectively your school builds strong relationships with families, communicates expectations, and engages parents and carers as partners.
📈 Monitoring
How often—and how well—do you review your attendance strategy? Evaluate your approach to ongoing monitoring, reporting, and learning to ensure your actions are driving the outcomes you want to see.
Start Your Evaluation Today
Use our Attendance Self-evaluation tool to pinpoint strengths, uncover gaps, and drive improvement in a way that is tailored to your school’s context and challenges. Practical, thorough, and designed for impact.
Ready to take the next step in boosting attendance? Try our free demo to see how EMS can support you.
Testimonials
EMS’s Leadership Evaluation enables all schools to review their culture, climate, and leadership in the context of the key factors that lay behind these schools’ success. Taking an evidence-informed approach, it will elicit powerful next steps for any school on its leadership journey.
Andy Buck, Author, speaker, CEO of Leadership Matters, and creator of the BASIC coaching model.
Bedford Borough Council has rolled out the EvaluateMySchool SEND evaluation to all of our 70 schools. After trialling EMS through our partnership with Whole Education we were keen to use it to holistically evaluate our SEND provision. EMS is simple to use, and the evaluation enables us to create conversations with staff about SEND provision in our schools and across our local authority.
Jon Foster, Teaching & Learning SEND Advisor, Bedford Borough Council
EvaluateMySchool has been pivotal at identifying patterns and trends in SEND practice, and recognising where our strengths and areas for development are, which has then fed directly into my SEND strategy. The platform allows easy reporting, recording of conversations, assigning of actions and also the ability to upload evidence. The visual graphics allow quick snapshots into progress made at academy and MAT level, as well as identified groups of schools by phase.
Simon Tanner, National Director of SEND, E-ACT
What I like most about EMS, apart from the ability to personalise the measures, is that it allows me to influence change by providing the resources to analyse evaluation results (comparing them to other schools if I was part of a group), track and annotate progress, and to actively plan improvements – all within the evaluation! This is so much more than an evaluation!
Emma Dibden, Education Specialist – GL Assessment
Gary Aubin, SEND Consultant – Whole EducationEvaluate My School provides a common language for schools to think about SEND. It has helped many SENDCOs I know, to keep themselves strategic in what can be a very operational role. It helps leaders, who might not feel confident in relation to SEND leadership, to understand the part they can play in developing provision for pupils with SEND.
I highly recommend EvaluateMySchool. We used the tools to help evaluate and prepare next steps for strategic development ahead of our Ofsted inspection. Evidence of leadership and improvement all in one online space!.
Maria Constantinou, Headteacher
EMS’s Leadership Evaluation enables all schools to review their culture, climate, and leadership in the context of the key factors that lay behind these schools’ success. Taking an evidence-informed approach, it will elicit powerful next steps for any school on its leadership journey.
Andy Buck, Author, speaker, CEO of Leadership Matters, and creator of the BASIC coaching model.
“Bedford Borough Council has rolled out the EvaluateMySchool SEND evaluation to all of our 70 schools. After trialling EMS through our partnership with Whole Education we were keen to use it to holistically evaluate our SEND provision. EMS is simple to use, and the evaluation enables us to create conversations with staff about SEND provision in our schools and across our local authority”.
Jon Foster, Teaching & Learning SEND Advisor, Bedford Borough Council
EvaluateMySchool has been pivotal at identifying patterns and trends in SEND practice, and recognising where our strengths and areas for development are, which has then fed directly into my SEND strategy. The platform allows easy reporting, recording of conversations, assigning of actions and also the ability to upload evidence. The visual graphics allow quick snapshots into progress made at academy and MAT level, as well as identified groups of schools by phase.
Simon Tanner, National Director of SEND, E-ACT
“I highly recommend EvaluateMySchool. We used the tools to help evaluate and prepare next steps for strategic development ahead of our Ofsted inspection. Evidence of leadership and improvement all in one online space!”.
Maria Constantinou, Headteacher
What I like most about EMS, apart from the ability to personalise the measures, is that it allows me to influence change by providing the resources to analyse evaluation results (comparing them to other schools if I was part of a group), track and annotate progress, and to actively plan improvements – all within the evaluation! This is so much more than an evaluation!
Emma Dibden, Education Specialist – GL Assessment
