Empowering leaders to achieve the exceptional
SMARTcurriculum works with education leaders to transform the life chances of every child by building an efficient, effective, and ethical curriculum with the resources available.
Led by Chris Jones, a national specialist with nearly 40 years’ experience, we are experts in systemic analysis, curriculum leadership, coaching, training, and school improvement. SMARTcurriculum Analytics is a DfE registered FAS provider including Integrated Curriculum and Finance Planning. The platform and our associated support services empower school leaders to deliver better education and smarter spending. We provide actionable insights which connect efficient workforce planning to educational needs and aspirational outcomes.
Our services

Mastery
Curriculum Leadership Coaching & Consultancy

Analytics
Curriculum Review, Analysis, Report and Modelling

Review
School Improvement, Curriculum, SEND and attendance reviews

Scheduling
Outsourced Timetable Creation and Coaching
Why SMARTcurriculum®?
Schools transformed
MATs/groups worked with

Average annual impact identified by SMARTcurriculum® Analytics 2024
Curriculum enhancement value
Teaching surplus
Teacher cost per hour per week
What our clients say…
I wholeheartedly recommend SMARTcurriculum. The team's expertise fills me with confidence: they truly understand our context and their external challenge and guidance have been invaluable in ensuring our long-term sustainability. SMARTcurriculum Analytics provides a curriculum, finance and staffing modelling facility I can trust. We now make precise, strategic, informed curriculum and staffing decisions with confidence. The ability to model 'what if' scenarios, such as different class sizes and curriculum structures, has been invaluable.

Working with SMARTcurriculum to redesign our KS4 pathways transformed our school, winning staff support, improving student behaviour, and earning positive recognition from Ofsted and the local authority. We saw dramatic improvements in student engagement: suspensions almost halved, attendance rose by 6% over two years, persistent absence dropped by 20%, and student academic performance improved. SMARTcurriculum Analytics helped us identify inefficiencies, streamline recruitment, and save £250,000 in staff costs in the first year alone, as well as reducing class sizes and improving staff workload balance.

SMARTcurriculum staff were very supportive from day one. They understood the needs of our school and worked exactly to our context. SMARTcurriculum Analytics is really easy to use: we have found it so helpful knowing the impact of changes and being able to financially forecast, which takes away the grey area and enables data-driven decisions that are financially savvy. We now have a fantastically balanced and appropriate timetable that works for all of our students and staff.

Invaluable… SMARTcurriculum Analytics drives financial efficiency in our school, enabling me to invest in facilities that will benefit learning. It has enabled us to strategically review our curriculum provision, tackle cultural issues, and break down structural constraints to student achievement.

SMARTcurriculum Analytics is clear and has given our school leaders, governors and Trustees information about the school in terms of staffing, curriculum and timetabling that in the past has not been possible.

We have worked with SMARTcurriculum on a number of projects, including our timetable and curriculum. Chris is knowledgeable, flexible and supportive in his approach. I have been delighted. As a result of his work I will not have a senior staff use their time stuck in an office writing a timetable, which is not effective or value for money.
