SchoolDeck runs the administrative half of an IB school — admissions, attendance, fees, transport and parent communication — while holding assessment in the IB’s own shape: criteria scored in bands rather than percentages, per-subject and per-programme, with PYP, MYP and DP each carrying their own structure.
It is not an IB curriculum or assessment platform. It does not replace the tools the IB itself provides, and it does not compute a predicted DP grade.
The mistake schools make when buying software for an IB programme is buying something that models assessment as a percentage. The IB does not assess in percentages. It assesses against criteria, in bands, and a system that stores a band as a number and then averages it has quietly destroyed the meaning of the thing it stored.
Most of an IB school’s administration is nevertheless ordinary school administration — a bus still runs, a fee is still due on the first, a parent still wants one screen. The requirement is a system that does the ordinary half properly without mangling the assessment half.
A criterion band is an ordinal judgement against a descriptor. It is not a score out of eight, and the distance between a 5 and a 6 is not the same as between a 6 and a 7. Averaging bands across criteria produces a number that looks authoritative and means nothing.
So bands are stored as bands, shown per criterion, and never silently combined into a single figure for a dashboard. Where a school needs an overall view, it sees the profile across criteria rather than a manufactured average.
A school running PYP through DP is running three assessment models against one set of students, one fee ledger and one bus route. The programme is a property of the enrolment, so a student moving from MYP into DP keeps their record and changes their assessment structure.
We do not compute predicted grades. A predicted grade is a professional judgement made by a teacher who knows the candidate, and a number generated from historical patterns will be read by a parent as a forecast. That is a harm we can avoid by not building it.
We also do not claim any integration with IB systems. There is none available to us, and the honest version of the offer is that we hold the school’s own data cleanly enough that whoever works in those systems is not retyping.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No. Those cover curriculum planning and IB-specific assessment workflow; SchoolDeck covers admissions, attendance, fees, transport, communication and the school’s own records. Schools commonly run both, and we do not pretend the overlap is larger than it is.
A school can record an equivalence where a receiving institution demands one, but it is entered deliberately by a person, not computed automatically. We will not manufacture a percentage from bands and present it as if it were measured.
It tracks completion and status against each student, because that is a record. It does not assess them.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 7 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
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