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About Sisra Multi-School
Sisra Multi-School is Juniper Education’s reporting product for multi-academy trusts. It combines the KS4 and KS5 data that each school in the trust publishes in Sisra Analytics into one set of trust reports. Read this page before you set it up or share its figures with trust leaders.
In Sisra, screens refer to it as MAT reporting, as in the MAT Contribution check when a school publishes KS5 grades.
What Multi-School shows
Section titled “What Multi-School shows”A trust can have KS4 reports, KS5 reports or both. Each key stage has an overview and four reports, which you choose from the navigation bar on the left of the screen.
| Key stage | Reports | What they cover |
|---|---|---|
| KS4 | Overview, Attainment 8 & Progress 8, Basics, EBacc, Subjects | Attainment 8, Progress 8, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) entry and results, and grade 5 or above and grade 4 or above in English and maths. The grades in each subject, with the Subject Progress Index (SPI) |
| KS5 | Overview, Value Added, Level 3 Attainment, AAB/Facilitating Subjects, Subjects | Level 3 value added, average points per entry, best 3 A levels, the AAB measures (at least grades AAB in three A levels), and the grades and value added in each subject |
The reports show the whole trust, each school, and groups by gender, disadvantage and special educational needs (SEN). You can filter any report to these groups or to chosen schools. At KS4 you can also show a benchmark from Sisra Data Collaboration, and weight schools as the DfE does for its trust measures.
KS4 trust reports and KS5 trust reports describe each report.
Who uses it
Section titled “Who uses it”Multi-School is for trust staff, such as the chief executive, directors of education and the trust’s data lead. Each person needs a Multi-School account with one of two roles. A Juniper User can open the reports. A Juniper Admin can also manage users, choose which data the reports show, set school joining dates and see reports during the results embargo.
Each school’s Sisra administrator, usually the data manager, does not need a Multi-School account. They still decide what reaches it, because the trust’s figures are built from their publishes. Sign in and find your way around Multi-School covers accounts and roles.
How Multi-School gets its data
Section titled “How Multi-School gets its data”Nobody enters data in Multi-School, and it does not recalculate any pupil’s or student’s results. Each school’s Sisra works out every pupil’s and student’s measures when the school publishes. Sisra then sends the results to Multi-School, as long as the publish passes Multi-School’s checks.
| Stage | Where it happens | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| Set up the cohort: key filter mapping, matching, and a grade type for each data set | The school’s Sisra Analytics | The school’s Sisra administrator |
| Publish, choosing the DfE rules year, the estimates and the Data Collaboration year | The school’s Sisra Analytics | The school’s Sisra administrator |
| Send the results to Multi-School | Sisra, when the publish passes the checks | Nobody: it is automatic |
| Group the results into data collections | Multi-School | Nobody: it is automatic |
| Choose which data collections staff can see | Multi-School, Settings | A Juniper Admin |
| Read and filter the reports | Multi-School | Everyone with an account |
A data collection holds every school’s most recent publish for one cohort, term and grade type, such as Year 11 Term 1 - Predicted. A school’s own name for its data set does not matter. Two schools’ autumn predictions combine only if both chose the same term and grade type.
This has three consequences. Multi-School cannot correct a school’s data: the school fixes it in Sisra and publishes again. The data behind trust figures changes only when a school publishes. And a trust figure mixes the publishing choices of every school in it, including the estimates each one chose.
Get school data into Multi-School lists the checks and the settings each school needs.
What Multi-School does not do
Section titled “What Multi-School does not do”Multi-School has no KS3 reports. It takes KS4 data only from Year 10 Term 1 onwards, so data for years 7 to 9 never reaches it.
Its figures are not the DfE’s trust measures. By default, Multi-School treats the trust as one large school. The DfE leaves out schools that joined recently, and at KS4 it weights each school by its pupils and its years in the trust. How trust figures are calculated explains the difference.
The KS4 benchmark is not a national figure. It is the average of the schools that took part in one year of Sisra Data Collaboration. There is no benchmark at KS5.
The DfE publishes no Progress 8 for pupils who finished year 11 in 2025 or 2026, because they took no KS2 tests. Multi-School’s Progress 8 for these cohorts can come only from schools that uploaded unofficial KS2 conversions, and that figure is not the DfE’s Progress 8. See Progress 8 for cohorts without KS2 results.
Multi-School shows the trust, its schools and groups of pupils and students. To look at individuals, use the school’s own Sisra Analytics.
During the summer results embargo, only staff with the Results Day Embargo Exemption permission can see the reports. Juniper Admins have it by default.