Sentral
sentral.com.au
What it 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 administrative, wellbeing, finance, and engagement tools together. Schools can manage profiles, enrolments, health records, activity permissions, transport, classes, attendance, and wellbeing. Finance functions include online payments, configurable fees and discounts, reporting, and links with Xero and Microsoft Dynamics. Teachers have an app for attendance and wellbeing tasks. Parents can use an app or browser portal for notices, teacher messages, absences, payments, and interview bookings, depending on what their school enables; students can view timetables, attendance, notices, and learning tasks. 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. Demographic management is available to independent schools only. Pricing is available through demo and enquiry links, with no public subscription price stated.
Spec sheet
- Product
- Sentral is a cloud-based school management platform with web-based modules for school administration, online learning and student management.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Audience
- Sentral describes solutions for independent and government schools in Australia and says its platform serves public, independent, specialised and multi-campus institutions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Integrations
- Sentral describes open integrations and flexible APIs for connecting learning, finance, HR, wellbeing and operational systems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Security
- Sentral says it is ISO 27001 certified and uses encrypted cloud storage and cloud-native infrastructure.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- 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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Founded
- 1998Read 28 Sep 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Administration
- The platform includes student profiles, enrolment and demographic management, health records, activity permissions, transport management and class creation.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Company history
- Sentral says it began in 1998, founded by people from the education sector.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Configuration
- Sentral says schools can configure more than 35 modules and connect learning, timetabling and cloud accounting software.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Education and wellbeing
- Features include attendance, student wellbeing records, customisable academic reports and a teacher app for attendance and wellbeing tasks.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Finance
- Finance features include online payments, configurable fees and discounts, financial reporting, and integrations such as Xero and Microsoft Dynamics.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Notable limit
- The demographics module is marked as available to independent schools only.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- 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.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- 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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- 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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Pricing
- The main school management platform is presented through demo and enquiry links; its public page does not state a subscription price.Read 10 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- Student management
- Features include student profiles, health and medical records, activities, transport management, attendance and wellbeing tracking.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
- What it covers
- The platform brings administration, wellbeing, finance and engagement tools together for school communities.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sentral.com.au
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Configurable fees, discounts, and financial reporting
- Parent app and portal support school communications
- More than 35 modules can be configured
- Available on Android, iOS, web, and API
Limits
- Demographic management is for independent schools only
Who it suits
Sentral is aimed at government, independent, specialised, and multi-campus schools seeking administration, finance, wellbeing, and engagement tools in one platform. Schools should note that demographic management is limited to independent schools.
Verdict
Sentral brings school administration and community-facing tools into one platform, with integrations and modular configuration. Schools will need to enquire for pricing and confirm which parent features they make available.
Where Specifiction places it
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