Why choose Orah?

Orah is trusted by some of the world's top schools to manage attendance, well-being & communications.

Schools have an obligation to families to take care of students while they are at school. We help schools nurture their students into leaders, succeeders and upstanding world citizens by ensuring that your students are accounted for, both physically and mentally while they are in your care.
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University School of Nashville
Tennessee, United States

Orah saves Nicole 15-20 hours each month, and helped USN significantly improve their roll call completion rate to 98%
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"It was pretty seamless…within three or four weeks, we pretty much had everybody taking it [attendance] in Orah.

The number of faculty members who have not taken attendance has dropped significantly…that means I’m not sending a reminder every class period or at the end of every day."
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- Nicole Jules, Assistant Head of School for Student Affairs

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Eton College
Berkshire, United Kingdom

"The system is very easy to use.

As well as a convenient tool for knowing exactly where pupils are, it has allowed pupils to indicate easily where they are going, when they left and when they return without scrambling to a piece of paper in the house.  That alongside the very important but secondary safeguarding records have all ensured great security at Eton.

The Orah app to allow remote access to check-in and check out in real-time has been very helpful in terms of usability, safeguarding and security."


- Anna Kempster, Head of IT Systems

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Millbrook School
NY, United States

"The pilot period initially allowed us to achieve "buy-in" from faculty before fully transforming the system. For our fire drill, we have a preset response plan where all students assemble in the gym for a roll check. The roll is quickly taken and Dan was able to walk through and reconcile any missing kids with Orah.

This was unbelievable effective. There was one student who was unaccounted for and didn't come to campus, but because it was already in the system, we knew exactly which student was missing within minutes.
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- Daniel Skoglund, Director of Diversity & Student Affairs

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Episcopal High School
VA, United States

"We were concerned about the big change of moving from pen and paper to a very electronic system. I think we were worried about the ways that it could malfunction and how some of our faculty might be intimidated by the technology. We didn’t really have any real concerns about what the program could do, rather we were more concerned about how much of a cultural shift it would be to the whole community.

[But] it was actually incredibly smooth for us. I spent a bit of time on the front end making sure I knew how to use it and in the first couple weeks of school, I just walked around with the person on duty and asked if they had any questions or concerns. The kids didn’t even bat an eye. They love it. They think it’s easier. It’s their world. The faculty were a little intimidated at first but as soon as they got the hang of how to use it, it worked seamlessly with them.
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- Ashley McDowell, Dean of Students

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Look familiar?

You're not alone

All schools have a duty of care for their students while on campus. But unfortunately, schools are often under resourced to manage student life to a high standard.

This results in reactive a prioritisation of student needs, gaps in key student services and safeguarding risks.

Orah saw these gaps, and we've been working to fix them for over 10 years now.

It can be this simple →

Orah connects to the student information systems your school already uses.

Student Information Systems are largely designed to capture information and aren't often easy for your everyday staff member, caregiver or student to use.

These integrations mean that you can sync across all your existing student information, including class and extracurricular groups – and give your staff an easy-to-use app to take attendance, manage behavior or communicate with parents & caregivers – all in one place.

Orah helps schools deliver a high standard of student care

We believe that students basic needs must be met before they can properly learn.

If the outcome is to learn and retain information in school, but a student is hungry – it is more effective to give that student breakfast than to improve the lesson plan.

Similarly, if a student is not doing well at home – it is more effective for a student's development to give them the support they need to deal with the issues that are affecting them, rather than investing in solutions further up the school hierarchy of needs.

Orah helps schools to manage student life & effectively deliver a high standard of care – which enables students to thrive at school.

Unify data in one place

Bringing the best out of every student

Think about the number of different people students interact with on a daily basis. Each person has their own unique relationship, connection and understanding of that students' progress.
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Students thrive and succeed when they are understood, and the best schools in the world ensure that everyone works together to get the best out of every student. But making sense of all the different interactions and coordinating departments is easier said than done.
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This is where Orah comes in. Orah allows you to capture and synchronize relevant data from multiple sources and provide everyone with a single human-centric view of the student to create an experience that brings the best out of every student.

What is a Duty of Care Platform?

Orah's Duty of Care platform helps schools to make sure students are accounted for, both physically and mentally. This is achieved through student location tracking (Attendance), well-being tools (Mood Checks, Surveys) and school communications (Connect). It’s all about helping schools to create a secure and supportive environment. 

Schools have an obligation to families to take care of students while they are at school.

Orah helps schools meet and exceed their duty of care.

Who needs a Duty of Care platform?

A Duty of Care platform should empower everyone involved with a students growth

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Understand your students

Make sure students are accounted for, both physically and mentally.

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Make informed decisions

Use Orah insights to identify at-risk students and areas for improvement.

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Bring people together

Show your school community that you care for their safety and well-being.

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Get single-view of the student

Get on the same page with access to unified student profiles.

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Be more proactive

Use alerts and insights to trigger proactive action

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Improve parent engagement

Collaborate with parents to improve student outcomes.

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Solve the attendance problem

We start here. Orah Attendance is trusted by some of the world's leading independent schools– we're here to you solve your most pressing attendance issues.

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Help the school make informed decisions faster

Give the leadership team easy-to-use tools, reports and dashboards across attendance, well-being & communications.

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Replace manual processes with Orah systems

Improve your operational efficiency by creating a shared responsibility for attendance, well-being and communications.

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Know what’s happening

Stay informed with how your child is progressing in real-time

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Be more involved

Collaborate with the school on your child’s development and work together to give them the best experience

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Easy & practical

Quickly respond to permission requests, submit student leave requests and receive alerts via email, text or the family app.

Meet and exceed your duty of care

Attendance, well-being and communications is often fragmented in multiple systems and formats. Orah make it simple to capture, unify and organize that data into a single student profile.

These profiles are distinct from your SIS as they are focused on a student's safety and well-being and designed to be used frequently–you can then sync the most relevant data back to your primary system of record.

Unify and enrich student profiles
Uncover and share valuable student insights

Understand your students

When you understand student behavior, you make better decisions to help them grow. By using Orah, it’s easy to build robust reports and generate actionable insights that everyone can rely on, align and work together to make great data-informed decisions.

Automate roll checks, leave requests and much more

Streamline and coordinate attendance, wellness & operational workflows so that staff can focus on their students – not admin.

Create personalised student experiences at scale

Next steps

Ready to empower your school with a duty of care platform?