“How many new students are coming next term?” Last year that took a week and three people. It is the first thing this page shows — on the screen the Head lands on at sign-in.
The Management Dashboard, Admission tab. Starting against leaving by month, the month-by-month table, and the projected headcount — counted forward from the starts and leavers already dated in the system.
Five questions the board asks, answered for YTD 2026. Headcounts, receivable and deposits are as of today.
Committed starts and leavers already in the system · from today
students per month · commencement dates and offboarding effective dates
projected = active today + running net · graduating includes terminal-year cohorts
| Month | Start | Withdraw | Graduate | Projected |
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Mirrors: School Admin → Management Dashboard → Admission → What's ahead? · starts and leavers already dated, counted forward; nothing predicted
It forecasts nothing — it counts starts and leavers already dated, and says what is not yet dated. A start is a commencement date on an enrolment; a leaver is a withdrawal with an effective date, or a terminal-year cohort at its year end. Switch the horizon and the chart and the table re-slice on the spot; hover a month for its counts.
The same tab, upper half. Active students today; who joined, withdrew and graduated in the window you pick; the admission pipeline; active students by division.
Five questions the board asks, answered for YTD 2026. Headcounts, receivable and deposits are as of today.
Active students · movement in YTD 2026 · pipeline
student records created · trailing 12 months
not yet started → deposit → cohort enrolment
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Mirrors: School Admin → Management Dashboard → Admission → Are we growing? · the period is a press, not a reload
Active students are as of today; joined, withdrawn and graduated are counted for this month, the year to date or the last twelve months, and the pipeline moves with them. The pipeline is filled on Admissions & WhatsApp CRM.
The Academic tab answers in one row — the school average against last term, how many students improved, held or declined, how many cards are finalised. Open Student Growth and the answer becomes a name and a trend: every student, every term, one cohort or the whole school.
Five questions the board asks, answered for YTD 2026. Headcounts, receivable and deposits are as of today.
mean of every finalised card · a term with no card is a gap
students with a card in both terms
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mean of every finalised card's result · a term with no card is a gap, never a guess
How each cell is built. One finalised report card per student per term; the number is the mean of that card's marked subjects (excluded subjects skipped); the letter is read from the student's own curriculum scale. Terms are the template's calendar year and cycle. No card, no cell — the report never estimates a missing term, and there is no ranking.
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Mirrors: School Admin → Management Dashboard → Academic → results row · Insight Centre → Student Growth · finalised cards only; a card in marking is listed, never counted
Finalised report cards only — a card still in marking is listed, never counted, and no missing term is ever estimated. One definition of the number across the dashboard row, the report and a student’s own Results tab; the marks are entered on Academic.
Four things a Head can check without asking anyone.
The Management Dashboard is the first screen after the Head signs in — not a menu, not a home page.
The receivable figure says “Same definition as Insight → AR Aging” on screen. The board’s figure and the finance office’s figure are the same figure.
What’s ahead counts what is dated and names what is not: how many are awaiting a start date, how many applications are still in the pipeline.
Results come from finalised report cards. A card in marking is shown as in marking, and nothing on the screen is a projection.
The dashboard reads your school and no one else’s. A school account has no cross-school view, and nothing on the page is forecast.
The Finance tab stays one sentence here: billed against collected, receivable today, deposits held. The Finance Manager’s screens have their own page.
How much is still owed, family by family; the bill that raises its own e-Invoice; who has not paid, and how to tell them.
Where the pipeline is filled — every enquiry a card with an owner, and the application the family fills once.
Where the marks are entered and the report cards finalised — the timetable, the gradebook, the attendance kiosk.
Who changed what, the login log, roles down to the page — the IT lead’s questions, on their own page.
Half an hour on a school shaped like yours — your terms, your divisions, your cohorts. The three questions above, answered on numbers that look like your own.