SchoolOval
Built for schools in Africa

Run your whole school
from one place.

Admissions, fees, academics, attendance, staff and parents — one platform, four portals, everything entered once.

No card required · Set up with our team · Your school, your own database

African secondary-school students walking together with their books in a school courtyard
  • Admissions
  • Fees & payments
  • Academics
  • Attendance & safety
  • Staff & payroll
  • Communication
  • School store
  • Student records
  • Parent portal
  • Finance & reports

Most schools don't have a software problem. They have six systems that don't talk.

Scroll, and watch a school day move onto SchoolOval.

  1. Before

    Applications arrive on paper, then get re-typed.

    On SchoolOval Admissions

    Applications come in online, with documents and fees attached.

  2. Before

    Parents queue at the bursar to pay — and to ask what they owe.

    On SchoolOval Fees

    Parents pay online. Every payment posts, receipts itself and lands in your books.

  3. Before

    Marks live in a notebook until report-card week.

    On SchoolOval Academics

    Teachers enter marks once. A whole class of report cards generates in one run.

  4. Before

    The register is a photocopied sheet on a clipboard.

    On SchoolOval Attendance

    Attendance and gate check-in sit in the same record.

  5. Before

    Parents call the office for things they could see themselves.

    On SchoolOval Parents

    Parents see results, balances and announcements in their own portal.

Six systems became one school that talks.

Academics & reports

The end of term stops being a crisis.

Set your own grading scale. Teachers enter assessment marks as they go. When the term closes, generate terminal reports for an entire class in one run.

  • Your grading, not ours. Nursery, primary and secondary can each run a different scale.
  • Whole-class report cards. Generate for a full class at once, in the background if it's large.
  • Promotion as a rehearsal. Dry-run it, check the outcomes, then commit — or roll it back.
See academics →
An African school staff member uses a tablet to verify a guardian collecting her child at the school gate
Attendance & safety

No child leaves with the wrong adult.

Run check-in and check-out from a tablet at the gate. A guardian gives their pickup code; SchoolOval checks it against the people you authorised, and logs the release.

  • Codes, not guesswork. Failed attempts are recorded, not forgotten.
  • A fallback that's still safe. Staff can verify a guardian manually — and that's recorded too.
  • More than a register. Temperature, gate and drop-off in one attendance record.
See attendance & safety →

Questions schools ask us.

What kind of schools use SchoolOval?

Private K‑12 schools — nursery, primary and secondary — and the groups that run several of them.

Can we bring our existing records in?

Yes — students, staff, classes and outstanding balances. We agree an approach before anything moves.

Do we need to install anything?

No. SchoolOval runs in the browser on phones, tablets and desktops. Your school gets its own web address.

Can teachers use their own grading scale?

Each school group can run its own scale — score bands, letters or grade points — with one active at a time.

Where is our data kept?

Each school gets its own separate database. Your records aren't mixed with any other school's.

How do we get help?

Email hello@schooloval.com. Support runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm.

See it with your own school's numbers.

Twenty minutes, your classes, your questions. If it isn't right for you, we'll tell you.

Or email hello@schooloval.com — a person reads it.