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Hero is priced per student, per year. Smaller schools (under 200 students) are covered by a flat-rate package tailored to suit their size.

Hero brings together everything New Zealand schools often run across multiple separate tools - learning, reporting, student management, administration, finance, communication, and more - into a complete school management system. It works hard across your whole school, so your team spends less time on admin and more time on the things that count.

Get in touch to find out what Hero looks like for your school.

Your Hero subscription includes our full student management platform: curriculum toolkit, reporting, school administration, student billing, communication tools, school interview bookings, and calendar and excursions management. Everything your school needs, in one place.

Also included is access to our lightning-fast helpdesk team, plus a comprehensive library of help articles, videos and user guides so your staff can build confidence at their own pace.

Plus, as the first New Zealand SMS to gain the internationally recognised Safer Technologies 4 Schools (ST4S) badge, Hero schools have peace of mind knowing their data is safe and secure.

Hero is designed to be your school's single platform, replacing the separate tools many schools rely on to manage daily operations.

Depending on your current setup, Hero can replace your:

• Student management system
• Family communication tools, including school notices
• Reporting tools
• Learning portfolios app
• Scheduling tool for school interviews
• School payments system
• Trips (EOTC), events and daily activity planning, management and permissions tools

Consolidating into Hero means less time jumping between systems and one place where all your school’s data lives - accurate, secure, and accessible to the right people.

Switching to a new student management system can feel like a big undertaking - but our team is here to support you at every step of the way,

Onboarding with Hero is a structured, guided process. We work closely with your leadership team and key administrators - your ‘Hero Change Team’ - to prepare for rollout and make sure everything lands well for your whole school.

Along the way, you’ll receive:

• Bite-sized training modules within your Hero site, so staff can learn at their own pace
• Guidance from Senior Education Consultants during setup
• Direct access to our support team whenever questions come up
• Access to Hero Masterclasses across your first 12 months to support implementation

We take care of transferring your key information so you can hit the ground running in Hero from day one. This includes:

• Enrolment data for current, pre-enrolled, and recently exited students (current and previous year)
• Student details, including custom fields such as permissions and houses
• Year-to-date attendance data for the current academic year

Schools find it straightforward to bring assessment data into Hero. We'll show your team how to extract data from your existing system and bulk upload it, so you're set up to manage future uploads with confidence too.

Super support doesn't stop once you're set up, it's built into everything we do.

Helpdesk support: We receive messages regularly from schools telling us how helpful and responsive the Hero helpdesk is. Whether it's a quick question or something more complex, there's always someone ready to help.

Resources: A library of help articles, video tutorials and user guides means your staff can find answers quickly, at any time.

Professional learning: For schools that want to dive deeper, our team of former school leaders, teachers and administrators run paid webinars, workshops, courses, and 1:1 tailored sessions that go well beyond the basics - connecting Hero to real classroom and leadership practice.

Hero gives parents and caregivers one place for everything connected to their child’s school journey. Schools choose which features to make available, so you're always in control of what families can see and do. Through the secure Hero app, they can:

• View and comment on posts relating to their child’s learning
• View information on their child’s progress and goals, including reports
• Read and comment on school notices relevant to their family
• Respond to surveys and trip permission requests
• Book parent-teacher interviews
• Make payments
• Notify your school if their child is absent or late
• View a log of any medications administered to their child
• View school term dates and a calendar of events

Find out more in our Parent Guide.

Hero was founded by Paul Sibson and Aimie Sibson, a New Zealand primary school principal and secondary teacher, who couldn't find the system schools needed, so they built it themselves.

It began with a lightbulb moment: that bringing together all aspects of school life into one place would make things better for teachers, students, and their families. What followed were many late nights of a principal learning to code, leading a school by day and quietly building a better way forward by night.

Today, Hero is headquartered in Ōtautahi Christchurch and trusted by 1,000+ schools across New Zealand and beyond, with Paul and Aimie still at the helm. Our team is made up of former teachers, school leaders, administrators, and people who have spent their careers in and around education - including a school librarian, RTLB, caretaker and ESOL specialist.