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A June academic year, SSLC grades, and schools already running Sampoorna

A Kerala state board school runs SSLC at Class 10 and Higher Secondary at Class 12, on an academic year that begins in June rather than April, with results expressed as grades. Most government and aided schools already maintain student data in Sampoorna, which anything else has to reconcile with rather than replace.

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Written by Checked by Syed RuheeLast reviewed

Kerala breaks the two assumptions almost every Indian school ERP makes: that the year starts in April, and that a result is a mark. Neither holds, and software that hard-codes either produces a system the school fights all year.

Class 10 / 12
SSLC / Higher Secondary
Academic year
Begins in June
Result
Grades, under a defined scheme
Existing system
Sampoorna, in most government and aided schools
01

A June year is not an April year shifted

Session start, term boundaries, promotion at year close, fee instalment dates and the attendance denominator all move together. The failure is rarely the start date itself — it is that a system with an April default computes the first term’s attendance percentage against the wrong working days, and nobody checks until a shortfall notice goes to a family that does not have one.

02

Grades as the stored result

Where the board expresses a result as a grade, the grade is what the record holds, with the underlying marks stored alongside where the school captures them. Storing only marks and deriving the grade at print time works; storing only the grade and reconstructing marks does not, and the second is what produces mark sheets that disagree with the board’s.

03

Living alongside Sampoorna

Government and aided schools already maintain enrolment in Sampoorna, and are not going to stop. The realistic position is that it remains the state-facing record while the school runs fees, examinations, transport and parent communication elsewhere, with enrolment reconciled between the two rather than entered twice. Any vendor proposing to replace it has not spoken to an aided school.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Does the academic year actually start in June in the system?

Yes — session dates are configured per school, and everything downstream, including the attendance denominator and instalment dates, follows from them rather than from an April assumption.

Do we have to stop using Sampoorna?

No. It stays the state-facing enrolment record; the school’s own operations run alongside it with enrolment reconciled rather than duplicated.

Are Malayalam-medium report cards supported?

Yes, per section medium, with the board’s grade descriptors.

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