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About Gradie

Every educational decision
should be an informed one

Gradie isn't a school management system.It's an educational intelligence platform built around one idea:that a deep understanding of learning should guide everything a school does.

Turning data into better learning outcomes

What schools already collect

Schools today generate an enormous amount of information

Every school day produces records. Term after term, the files grow, the spreadsheets multiply, and the filing cabinets fill. Every student's learning leaves a trail of evidence — scattered across those files, waiting to be noticed.

  • Attendance records
  • Assessment marks
  • Lesson plans
  • Behaviour notes
  • Fee payments
  • Academic reports

What still goes unanswered

Yet the most important questions remain the hardest to answer

Information is not the same as understanding. A school can collect every data point and still not see the picture inside the data. Most of the time, schools can't see that trail of evidence until it's too late to act.

  • 01

    Is every student actually learning?

  • 02

    Which concepts are students struggling to understand?

  • 03

    Which teachers need additional support?

  • 04

    Is the curriculum progressing as expected?

  • 05

    Where should interventions happen before examinations?

For institutions

A strategic technology partner, not just software

We begin by understanding how your institution operates—its academic structure, curriculum, assessment, reporting, communication, and administration. We configure Gradie around those existing workflows, rather than forcing your school to adapt to the software.

Our implementation team works alongside each institution through onboarding, data migration, configuration, staff training, and rollout, so the platform aligns with the school's goals from day one.

  • Academic operations — planning, assessment, reports, and learning progress
  • Educators — practical tools and earlier visibility of learning gaps
  • Leadership — school-wide insight for stronger decisions
  • Parents and students — one place for progress, attendance, results, and engagement
  • Institutional intelligence — connected activity that supports continuous improvement

The result is one platform that helps institutions understand learning, empower educators, connect stakeholders, and make better decisions.

Most educational software manages administration
Very little helps schools understand learning itself

The gap isn't a gap in data collection. It's a gap in sense-making. Tools built for administration are good at moving paperwork — they aren't designed to surface what a student is actually ready to learn next, or where a teacher's week is getting stretched thin. Gradie exists to close that gap. We turn the data schools already generate into clear, timely insight — before a term ends, not after.

Why this starts here

Nigeria and Africa will only grow and flourish
with world-class education

The schools that are opening their doors this term across Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, Accra, Nairobi, and beyond are the places where the continent's next generation of scientists, teachers, doctors, founders, artists, and leaders will learn their first ideas. Those schools deserve more than photocopied report booklets and cobbled-together spreadsheets.

The quiet truth is that world-class education now depends on world-class software. Not because software replaces teachers — it never will — but because the right platform gives every teacher, every leader, and every family the clarity to notice a learner who needs support, weeks before a gradebook tells them. Gradie is being built in and for Africa, for schools that want outcomes on par with the best systems in the world.

A classroom in one of the schools Gradie is built for
The condition

The schools shaping Africa's future often rely on administrative tools built for a different era — and a different continent.

The opportunity

A single intelligence platform built with the local context of African schools in mind — curriculum alignment, term calendars, fee schedules, reporting, and community trust — can unlock world-class learning at scale.

Gradie is Gradie because it began by listening to Nigerian schools first. It is continuing the same way.

Our philosophy

Five things we believe
about technology and schools

These beliefs are the reason Gradie looks the way it does. They shape every screen the user sees and every record the platform keeps.

Core belief · Excellence · 01

Education deserves better technology

Schools shouldn't have to piece together five disconnected spreadsheets and three independent portals just to understand what is happening inside a classroom. Technology should reduce complexity, not introduce it. Gradie is a single platform where curriculum, attendance, assessment, conduct, timetable, and fees all inform one another — so the system works for the school, not the other way around.

For school leaders

A command centre with workflow toggles, Nigeria's national curriculum (NERDC) loaded automatically, timetable publishing, cohort promotion, and result computation — all connected. Rigorous analysis, plainly explained.

Timetable

Curriculum

Results

Cohorts

Education deserves better technology

Core belief · Integrity · 02

Learning should be visible

Grades alone don't tell the full story. Schools should understand learning at the level of curriculum, concepts, mastery, and progress — not only examination results. When we map a topic all the way from scheme of work to lesson delivery to continuous assessment to the final exam, a student who is struggling becomes visible long before the term ends. A clearer picture of every learner's progress is the first thing schools need.

For teachers and students

Curriculum delivery progress bars per subject; continuous assessment (CA) scores with concept-level granularity; a term report that traces a grade back to the specific topics it was drawn from.

Concept mastery

CA scores

Trend lines

Term report

Learning should be visible

Core belief · Empowering · 03

Teachers deserve intelligent tools

Teachers already make hundreds of important decisions every week. Technology should strengthen those decisions by providing meaningful insight rather than creating additional administrative work. A gradebook should flag a gap before it becomes a failure. An attendance record shouldn't be filed away — it should suggest a follow-up. Insight schools can act on, not just admire.

For teachers

One-click attendance; continuous assessment (CA) and exam modes that remember the class and subject; parent chats that escalate to pastoral; a teaching duty timetable sorted by the teacher's own week.

Attendance

Gradebook

Parent chat

Duty roster

Teachers deserve intelligent tools

Core belief · Collaboration · 04

Every stakeholder should share the same understanding

Parents, teachers, school leaders, and students should all work from a shared understanding of learning progress. Better communication begins with better visibility. A parent asking how their child is doing and the teacher answering should be looking at the same record — not two different versions of the same truth. The data should respect the people behind it.

For parents and bursars

A parent's daily digest, conduct timeline, welfare notes, and fee balance are the same records the school sees — alongside a bursar's billing policies, clearance gating, and reminders for families with outstanding balances.

Welfare

Fees

Daily digest

Conduct

Every stakeholder should share the same understanding

Core belief · Passion · 05

Education is ultimately about people

Although Gradie is powered by technology, the platform exists to serve teachers, students, and school communities. People always come before software. The dashboards, the alerts, the charts — none of them are the point. They are the instruments that help a real person notice, decide, and show up for another person. Every student's learning deserves to be seen, supported, and improved.

For everyone

A student's leaderboard celebrates the individual; a school owner's Pulse page reflects the human health of the institution; a notice board is how a community speaks to itself.

Community

Wellbeing

Pulse

Celebration

Education is ultimately about people

Founder's Letter

Are our students truly learning?

There is a question I keep coming back to.

Are our students truly learning?

The more time I spend around schools, the more that question troubles me.

Not because I believe our students are less capable. In fact, I believe the opposite. I believe Africa is home to extraordinary talent, curiosity and potential. What concerns me is that too many students are not being given the opportunity to develop that potential to its fullest.

I have always been obsessed with making things better. Teaching has been one of the ways I've expressed that obsession. For years, I taught computers, mentored aspiring developers, ran coding programmes, and taught chess. Whether I was standing in front of children or adults, my goal was never simply to finish a lesson. It was to know that understanding had taken place.

Later, I had the opportunity to serve as the manager of a private school. It was one of the most formative experiences of my life.

Working alongside teachers, school leaders, parents, and students, I realised something I could no longer ignore. Schools collect an incredible amount of information—attendance, assessments, lesson plans, behaviour records, reports, and much more. Yet when I asked what I thought was the most important question, the answer was often uncertain.

Not passing exams.

Not completing the syllabus.

Not attending class.

Learning.

Teachers dedicate themselves to their students every day, yet too often they have little evidence of the long-term impact of their work. School leaders make difficult decisions without the clarity they deserve. Parents want to help, but often see only fragments of the bigger picture.

I came to believe that this wasn't a failure of educators. It was a failure of the tools available to them.

That belief became Gradie.

I didn't set out to build another school management system. I set out to build something that helps schools understand learning itself.

I want teachers to see the difference they are making.

I want school leaders to make decisions based on evidence rather than intuition.

I want parents to have confidence that their children are progressing.

Most importantly, I want every student to be seen before they fall behind—not after.

I don't believe better software alone will transform education.

Teachers will.

School leaders will.

Parents will.

Students will.

But I do believe that when the right people are given the right understanding at the right time, remarkable things become possible.

This is the work I have chosen—not for a product launch, a funding round, or a headline, but because I believe the future of Africa will be shaped by what happens inside our classrooms today.

If Gradie can help schools understand every learner a little better tomorrow than they do today, then we are moving in the right direction. That is the standard I want us to be judged by. And that is the work I intend to dedicate my life to.

Henry John, Founder of Gradie

Henry John

Founder, Gradie

Where we are going

This is about more than software
It is about the future of education

Our vision is a world where every school has the clarity it needs to help every learner thrive. That vision starts with schools in Nigeria and across Africa — because when the systems that educate Africa's next generation have access to world-class software, the continent's long-term flourishing follows. Gradie is pursuing that vision with educational intelligence — one in which every stakeholder in a school can work from a single, clear picture of learning, and make better decisions because of it.

We turn the data schools already generate into clear, timely insight — so every student's learning is seen, supported, and improved.

Gradie is currently onboarding a founding cohort of schools ahead of our full launch.

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