Sentral
Sentral is a cloud-based school management platform for administration, online learning, and student management.
What Sentral is
Sentral is a cloud-based school management platform for administration, online learning, and student management. It serves government, independent, specialised, and multi-campus schools, bringing administration, wellbeing, finance, and engagement tools together. Schools can manage student profiles, enrolments, health records, activity permissions, transport, classes, attendance, and wellbeing. Finance tools cover online payments, configurable fees and discounts, financial reporting, and integrations such as Xero and Microsoft Dynamics. Teachers have an app for attendance and wellbeing tasks. Parents can use an app or web portal for notices, teacher messages, absence reports, payments, and interview bookings; students can access timetables, attendance, notices, and learning tasks. Available functions may depend on the school. Sentral describes open integrations and flexible APIs, and says schools can configure more than 35 modules. It is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. Sentral says it is ISO 27001 certified and uses encrypted cloud storage. Pricing is provided through demo and enquiry links, with no public subscription price stated.
Good
- Covers enrolment, attendance, wellbeing, and transport.
- Includes online payments and configurable fees.
- Parent access supports notices and absence reports.
- Schools can configure more than 35 modules.
- Available on Android, iOS, web, and API.
Watch out
- No public subscription price is stated.
- Demographic management is for independent schools only.
- Some parent features depend on the school.
Who it suits
Sentral suits schools looking to manage administration, student records, wellbeing, finance, and family engagement in one platform. Its parent and student tools are useful to school communities, subject to the features each school makes available.
Verdict
Sentral combines school administration with finance, wellbeing, and parent and student access. Schools should confirm available features and request pricing through a demo or enquiry.
The facts
Each one read from Sentral's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Administration
- The platform includes student profiles, enrolment and demographic management, health records, activity permissions, transport management and class creation.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Sentral describes solutions for independent and government schools in Australia and says its platform serves public, independent, specialised and multi-campus institutions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- Sentral says schools can configure more than 35 modules and connect learning, timetabling and cloud accounting software.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Education and wellbeing
- Features include attendance, student wellbeing records, customisable academic reports and a teacher app for attendance and wellbeing tasks.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Finance
- Finance features include online payments, configurable fees and discounts, financial reporting, and integrations such as Xero and Microsoft Dynamics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Sentral describes open integrations and flexible APIs for connecting learning, finance, HR, wellbeing and operational systems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The demographics module is marked as available to independent schools only.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Parent and student access
- The parent app and portal support school notices, teacher messaging, absence reporting, payments and interview bookings, while the student portal provides timetables, attendance, notices and learning tasks.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Parent features
- Parents can use the app or portal for school notices, teacher messaging, absence reports, payments and interview bookings, subject to what their school makes available.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- The main school management platform is presented through demo and enquiry links; its public page does not state a subscription price.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Product
- Sentral is a cloud-based school management platform with web-based modules for school administration, online learning and student management.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Sentral says it is ISO 27001 certified and uses encrypted cloud storage and cloud-native infrastructure.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Student management
- Features include student profiles, health and medical records, activities, transport management, attendance and wellbeing tracking.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Sentral offers Australian-based support by phone on weekdays from 7:30am to 7:00pm AEST, and says it responds to support tickets within one business day.checked 11 Oct 2026
- What it covers
- The platform brings administration, wellbeing, finance and engagement tools together for school communities.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Sentral says it began in 1998, founded by people from the education sector.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1998checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Parent app
- The Sentral for Parents app is available on iOS and Android, while the Parent Portal works in a web browser on desktop, tablet or phone.checked 11 Oct 2026
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