SchoolDeck adds the residential half of a boarding school to the academic one: dormitory allocation, leave and gate passes with the guardian who approved them, an infirmary log, pocket-money accounts, and a location status for every boarder that a duty master can check at any hour.
It is a record, not a surveillance system. It holds where a student is according to what was signed, not continuous tracking of a child.
A boarding school is accountable for a student twenty-four hours a day, and the accountability that matters is not academic. At ten at night the question is not what someone scored — it is whether every boarder is where they are supposed to be, and if one is not, who signed them out and when they are due back.
Day-school software has no answer to that question, so boarding schools keep the answer in a register at the housemaster’s desk. That works until the housemaster is on leave.
The core of boarding administration is a status per boarder: in house, in class, at games, in the infirmary, on approved leave, or overdue. A duty master coming on shift needs the exceptions, not the list.
Medication administered to a child in loco parentis has to be recorded with what was given, at what dose, by whom and on whose authority. That is a higher standard than most school software applies to anything, and it is the right one.
Access is restricted to medical staff and the housemaster; it does not appear on a class teacher’s screen. Allergy and condition flags surface where they prevent harm — the kitchen, the games staff — without exposing the underlying record.
Boarders’ pocket money is money held by the school on behalf of a minor. Parents top it up, the tuck shop draws it down, and at the end of term a statement has to reconcile. Treated casually it becomes the thing that generates the most parent complaints per rupee involved.
So it is a ledger with a per-student balance, itemised transactions and a statement, reconciled the same way fees are.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No. It records status from what was actually signed — a gate pass, an infirmary admission, a games session — and computes who is overdue against that. It is a record of authorisations, not surveillance of a child.
Yes, both, on the same parent app as fees and attendance. The infirmary record is not exposed on the parent app by default; schools handle a medical matter by speaking to the family.
Bed-level allocation against the roll, with the previous year visible so housemasters can avoid or repeat pairings deliberately. Changes mid-year are dated, because "which room was he in during October" is a question that gets asked.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 7 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
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