School Performance, Excellence and Effectiveness Diagnostic

Know where your school stands. Know what to improve. Know how to get there.

Your principal or headteacher completes the assessment, consulting colleagues. Your proprietor adds a ten-minute check of their own. SPEED shows where the school is strong, where it is exposed, where your leaders see things differently, and what to do first.

LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT 1 2 3 4 5 PR CO GAP · 3 LEVELS

About 75 minutes for one coordinator, plus ten minutes for the proprietor. Free to complete. See a sample report

  1. 017 dimensionsThe whole school, not one corner of it
  2. 02Independent leadership assessmentThe proprietor adds a ten-minute check
  3. 03Alignment gapsWhere your leaders see a different school
  4. 04Priority actionsSafety first, then the lowest-cost gains
  5. 0590-day roadmapWhat to do this term
The framework

Seven dimensions that decide whether a school grows or stalls

Built around the realities of ordinary private schools, not only premium international ones. Educational quality, school management, parent experience, competitive strength and operational sustainability in one instrument.

01

Leadership, Governance & School Direction

Vision and priorities, the proprietor-principal relationship, decision rights, delegation, accountability, structured management reviews and follow-through.

02

Teaching, Learning & Teacher Capability

What good teaching is defined to look like, lesson planning, assessment and feedback, pupil progress monitoring, teacher development and academic records.

03

Safety, Safeguarding & School Environment

Gate control, visitor register and identity verification, authorised child release, safeguarding procedures, emergency arrangements, sanitation and classroom condition.

04

Student Experience, Recreation & Engagement

Whether school life is stimulating beyond formal lessons. Play and recreation, clubs, assemblies, sport and creative activity, and whether children belong and enjoy being there.

05

Parent Experience, Engagement & Trust

Structured parent meetings, communication channels, how complaints are handled, responsiveness, parent feedback, and the real reasons parents stay, recommend or leave.

06

Financial, Operational & Administrative Sustainability

Periodic financial review, fee collection oversight, resource adequacy, administrative records and whether management understands its cost and capacity pressures. Not an audit.

07

Enrolment, Visibility, Brand & Competitive Position

Enrolment trend, enquiry follow-up, website and social presence, digital discoverability, a clear reason to choose you over the school down the road, and how referrals are tracked.

72 PRACTICES

Seven dimensions. Five levels. One report.

Every practice is placed on the same five-level scale, and twelve are checked separately by the proprietor.

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The maturity scale

Not a pass or fail. Five levels of practice

Every developmental item is placed on the same five-level scale, so a school can see the distance between where a practice sits today and what the next level would actually require.

LEVEL 1

Foundational

Little or no consistent practice. Activity is largely informal or reactive.

LEVEL 2

Emerging

Some practices exist but are inconsistent, person dependent or poorly documented.

LEVEL 3

Established

Core practice is consistently implemented and understood across the school.

LEVEL 4

Advancing

Practice is measured, reviewed and deliberately improved over time.

LEVEL 5

Excellent

Practice is embedded, evidence based and used strategically to improve outcomes and competitiveness.

What makes SPEED different

When the owner and the principal see different schools

The proprietor answers twelve key questions on their own, beside the coordinator's full assessment. Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the finding. A school can look strong on paper while the owner and the principal see two different schools.

A wide perception gap usually points to unclear systems, weak communication or uneven implementation, and it triggers a recommendation for management discussion even when the average score looks acceptable.

Illustrative outputCO Coordinator PR Proprietor
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Leadership & Governance
PRCO
Low
Parent Experience & Trust
PRCO
Moderate
Safety & Safeguarding
PRCO
High
LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE: LOW ALIGNMENT The proprietor sees Level 5. The coordinator sees Level 2. The report names the specific practices driving the gap and what to do about them.
How it works

Four steps, no consultant visit required

STEP 1

Request your school access code

One code is issued per school, centrally by OmiTrain, usually within one working day. It opens the full assessment for your coordinator and a short check for the proprietor.

STEP 2

Two people, about a week

The coordinator, ideally the principal or headteacher, leads the team through one section a day, about 20 minutes each, so the full assessment is done in about seven school days. The proprietor, director or manager answers twelve questions on their own phone in about ten minutes.

STEP 3

See your free result snippet

As soon as every part is in, the school sees its overall maturity level, its single strongest dimension and its single weakest, plus whether a material perception gap was detected.

STEP 4

Unlock the full School Excellence Report

Scan the QR code shown with your result, confirm your school details, and we issue an invoice. The full report and both roadmaps follow as soon as payment is confirmed.

What you receive

Free to complete. Paid to see everything

The assessment costs nothing and always returns something useful. The full diagnostic, the analysis behind it and the improvement roadmaps sit behind the report.

Free

Result snippet

  • Overall School Excellence maturity level
  • Your single strongest dimension, named
  • Your single weakest dimension, named
  • Whether a material leadership perception gap was detected
  • Any critical safeguarding flag, raised immediately
The School Excellence Report

Full diagnostic and roadmap

  • Spider chart, traffic lights and scores for all seven dimensions
  • A score for every practice, showing what pulls each dimension down
  • Digital readiness: admissions, fees, records, reporting and learning
  • Management alignment analysis, practice by practice
  • Top strengths, priority vulnerabilities and five priority actions
  • Improvement roadmap: short, medium and long term, with cost bands
  • Premium PDF to download, print and share with your board
See exactly what your school receives.A complete sample report for a fictional school, every page included.
See a sample full report
Who is behind SPEED

Built by OmiTrain

OmiTrain is a workforce development and consulting company that helps organisations build capability through training, advisory work and e-learning. SPEED brings that experience to schools: a clear view of where a school stands and a practical plan to improve.

Talk to us info@omitrain.com United States: +1 314 934 9424 Nigeria: +234 808 238 2005 www.omitrain.com
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Tell us about your school and we will issue a code for your leadership team. The assessment is free.

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