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Best for browsing
Shell
Get a feel for every school — free.
Free
No card required
- Core profile: gender, ages, phase, boarding types, religious character
- ISI overall grade, inspection date and safeguarding flag
- Current-year full and weekly boarding fees
- Bursaries and scholarship types
- A-level pass rate and A*/A percentage
- Basic search, filters and airport drive times
Best for parents
Prefect
The full financial and academic picture.
£40 one-off
3 months’ access · no auto-renewal
Everything in Shell, plus
- Six-year fee history — how day & boarding fees have moved, with the VAT jump
- Where leavers go: prep-school destinations and the feeder-school network
- Five-year financial charts and income breakdown
- Spend per pupil, reserves months and staff-to-pupil ratio
- Reinvestment ratio and staff-cost share of fees
- Plain-English breakdown of the financial health flag
- Full co-curricular and academic data
- ISI flagged phrases and website word clouds
- Save an unlimited shortlist and compare schools side by side
- Private notes and annotations on any school profile
Best for schools
Scholar
Competitive intelligence and benchmarking.
£400/quarter
Cancel anytime
Everything in Prefect, plus
- Sector intelligence: financial-stress screener across all 431 schools + resilience/momentum map
- Custom peer-group benchmarking against any cohort you build
- Catchment demographics with age and earnings map
- Capital-investment and fundraising-dependency signals
- Tuckbox — our chatbot for natural-language questions across every school
- Watermarked PDF school reports
- Up to five seats and priority support
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Everything each plan includes, side by side.
| Feature | Shell Free Best for browsing | Prefect £40 one-off Best for parents | Scholar £400/qtr Best for schools |
|---|---|---|---|
| School profiles | |||
| Core identity fields (gender, ages, phase, religious character, sixth form, boarding types) | |||
| ISI overall grade and inspection date | |||
| Safeguarding concern flag | |||
| Current-year full and weekly boarding fees | |||
| Six-year fee-change headline | |||
| Bursary availability and scholarship types | |||
| Airport drive times (five airports) | |||
| Six-year fee history chart (day & boarding, Year 6/9/12) with VAT trend | – | ||
| Where leavers go — named senior-school destinations (prep schools) | – | ||
| Feeder prep schools (which preps send pupils to a senior school) | – | ||
| Full five-year financial charts (income, expenditure, surplus trend) | – | ||
| Income breakdown (fees, donations, trading, investment) | – | ||
| Spend per pupil | – | ||
| Reinvestment ratio (capital expenditure as % of fees) | – | ||
| Staff costs as % of fee income | – | ||
| Reserves months | – | ||
| Bursary generosity score | – | ||
| Staff-to-pupil ratio | – | ||
| ISI flagged phrases | – | ||
| Full co-curricular data (sports, CCF, DofE, clubs, facilities) | – | ||
| Full academic data | – | ||
| Word clouds (website and ISI, with sentiment) | – | ||
| Catchment demographics, including age and earnings map | – | – | |
| Academic & pastoral | |||
| A-level pass rate and A*/A percentage | |||
| Full academic dataset | – | ||
| Search & filters | |||
| Basic filters (gender, phase, region, boarding, fee range, ISI grade, health flag) | |||
| Bursary and scholarship filter | |||
| Airport proximity filter | |||
| Full advanced filter set | – | ||
| Save and compare unlimited schools | – | ||
| Full comparison table across all metrics | – | ||
| Financial detail | |||
| Surplus component breakdown (operating, trading, fundraising, structural) | – | ||
| Financial health flag breakdown, in plain English | – | ||
| Benchmarking | |||
| Peer-group constructor (custom cohort by region, size or fee band) | – | – | |
| All financial ratios vs peer-group median and mean | – | – | |
| ISI grade comparison vs regional peers | – | – | |
| Student-to-staff ratio vs peer cohort | – | – | |
| Staff costs vs peer cohort | – | – | |
| Capital spend vs peer cohort | – | – | |
| Surplus decomposition vs peer cohort | – | – | |
| Intelligence tools | |||
| Capital-investment signal (multi-year underspend vs peer median) | – | – | |
| Fundraising-dependency flag | – | – | |
| Financial-stress screener across all 431 schools (sortable, filterable) | – | – | |
| Resilience × momentum map (four-quadrant sector view) | – | – | |
| Tuckbox | |||
| Natural-language questions across every school (rate limited) | – | – | |
| Side-by-side answers and school comparisons | – | – | |
| Outputs | |||
| Watermarked PDF school report download (full profile) | – | – | |
| Private notes and annotations on profiles | – | ||
| Account | |||
| Up to five seats | – | – | |
| Priority support | – | – | |