Know where every student is, in real time

Whether you're managing attendance for a regular day or an emergency response, Orah shows you exactly who is where, without the confusion.

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Trusted by leading independent schools

Over 500 schools trust Orah to keep their students safe and accounted for.

Start emergency responses with real time visibility

Other school safety platforms only activate after a crisis hits. Orah helps you reach resolution faster by giving you real-time student location visibility before, during, and after—because it’s built on live attendance data, not static records.

Know where every student is, in real time

Real-time attendance is the vehicle for real-time awareness is crisis situations. Orah's attendance tools help you identify attendance trends and concerns, automate processes, reduce admin load, and act faster when it matters most.

Connect your SIS to get started

Using your existing SIS Attendance data, you can uncover attendance trends and setup automated notifications in less than two hours.

Attendance, Well-being & Communications, all in one place

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Schools worldwide

150,000+

Students worldwide

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Countries

10+

Years in Operation

University School of Nashville
Tennessee, United States

Orah saves Nicole 15-20 hours each month, and helped USN significantly improve their roll call completion rate to 98%

"It was pretty seamless…within three or four weeks, we pretty much had everybody taking it [attendance] in Orah.

The number of faculty members who have not taken attendance has dropped significantly…that means I’m not sending a reminder every class period or at the end of every day."

- Nicole Jules, Assistant Head of School for Student Affairs

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Eton College
Berkshire, United Kingdom

"The system is very easy to use.

As well as a convenient tool for knowing exactly where pupils are, it has allowed pupils to indicate easily where they are going, when they left and when they return without scrambling to a piece of paper in the house.  That alongside the very important but secondary safeguarding records have all ensured great security at Eton.

The Orah app to allow remote access to check-in and check out in real-time has been very helpful in terms of usability, safeguarding and security."


- Anna Kempster, Head of IT Systems

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Millbrook School
NY, United States

"The pilot period initially allowed us to achieve "buy-in" from faculty before fully transforming the system. For our fire drill, we have a preset response plan where all students assemble in the gym for a roll check. The roll is quickly taken and Dan was able to walk through and reconcile any missing kids with Orah.

This was unbelievably effective. There was one student who was unaccounted for and didn't come to campus, but because it was already in the system, we knew exactly which student was missing within minutes.
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- Daniel Skoglund, Director of Diversity & Student Affairs

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Episcopal High School
VA, United States

"We were concerned about the big change of moving from pen and paper to a very electronic system. I think we were worried about the ways that it could malfunction and how some of our faculty might be intimidated by the technology. We didn’t really have any real concerns about what the program could do, rather we were more concerned about how much of a cultural shift it would be to the whole community.

[But] it was actually incredibly smooth for us. I spent a bit of time on the front end making sure I knew how to use it and in the first couple weeks of school, I just walked around with the person on duty and asked if they had any questions or concerns. The kids didn’t even bat an eye. They love it. They think it’s easier. It’s their world. The faculty were a little intimidated at first but as soon as they got the hang of how to use it, it worked seamlessly with them.
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- Ashley McDowell, Dean of Students

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Real time location visibility is critical

In an emergency... every. second. counts.

Account for students faster by starting emergency responses with up-to-the-minute awareness of student locations. Collaborative emergency rolls allow multiple users to verify students’ status in parallel during critical situations, and students can alert staff via text or app if they are in trouble.

Achieve real-time visibility with Orah

This is the process we take independent schools through to achieve real-time visibility.

Step 1

Uncover insights and follow up students in real time

Make attendance data actionable. Start by connecting Orah to your SIS, syncing student, staff & attendance records first.

Once you've connected Orah to your SIS, we help your school configure Attendance Concerns — these are smart rules that help you identify at-risk students who would otherwise fly under the radar.

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Step 2

Streamline attendance for faculty & admin teams

Orah makes attendance efficient and accurate. USN achieved a 98% roll completion rate within a month. Attendance reconciliation takes an hour less, each day.

Faculty can mark the roll anywhere, which will update a student's location. Absences logged by parents instantly show up in the roll call. You can even set it up so that students can check themselves into class.

This is where the full power of Orah becomes clear. Not just as an attendance tool, but as a multi-source attendance engine that brings together teachers, students, and parents to build a live picture of student whereabouts.

Step 3

Leverage real time locations in an emergency

Now you can account for students faster in crisis situations.

Other school safety platforms only activate after a crisis hits. Orah gives you real-time visibility before, during, and after—because it’s built on live attendance data, not static records.

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Trusted by leading independent schools to keep students safe

"I don't think you can look a parent in the eye and say 'we are doing everything we can' if you don't have Orah on your campus."

- Andrew Wright,
Foxcroft Academy, USA

"We use [Orah] to immediately learn what has been taking place leading up to that moment - who is sick, who is off campus, who missed the breakfast roll. All of this information is in one place."

- Antxon Iturbe,
St Anne's Belfield School, USA

"The Orah app to allow remote access to check-in and check out in real-time has been very helpful in terms of usability, safeguarding and security.""

- Anna Kempster,
Eton College, UK

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"Students are starting to get more engaged just because of the way we're able to communicate and share information with them"

Jason Coady

Dean of Students & Campus Life
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Stuart Hall School

"Orah is a clean platform that allows you to see and track any concerns with students. You can see if they're not participating, eating regularly, or leaving the building. Those are incredibly helpful pieces that facilitate meaningful conversations"

Ryan Brandon

Director of Resident Life
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Saint John's Prep

"Orah ensures that you are on the top of your game when it comes to making sure that students are safe and accounted for. After using Orah, I can’t imagine operating without it now."

John Spear

Assistant Head for School Life
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Northwood School

"The checkpoint kiosk has provided a professional way to manage the sign in/out of the pupils and staff, which supports the safeguarding of pupils. The system is very easy to use, allowing proper management of access to Boarding Houses."

Anna Kempster

Head of IT Systems
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Eton College

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Orah’s security and privacy program is based on and aligned with industry-standard frameworks, and we maintain a comprehensive suite of certifications and attestations to further demonstrate our commitment to security and privacy.

GDPR Compliant
General Data Protection Regulation
HIPAA Compliant
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Student Privacy Pledge
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Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
ST4S Compliant
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Data Protection Act (UK)
PIPEDA Compliant
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
ISO/IEC 27001 Certified
Information Security Management System (ISMS)
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"This is hands down the best application on the market in terms of making sure parents and staff understand where students are at any given time during the day.

It also has done a great job of expanding into buy-in areas for students such as having event sign-ups inside the application. Having parent accounts also does a great job of keeping lines of communication open between the parents, school, and students.
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- Andrew Wright,
Foxcroft Academy, NY, USA