IRIS Education Strengthens Global Footprint with Expansion into Australian Market
London, UK – May 28, 2025 – iSAMS By IRIS (iSAMS), a leading cloud-based school management system, today announced its expansion into the Australian education market, offering independent schools the opportunity to transition to its award-winning cloud-based system. The expansion meets growing demand from independent schools in Australia, where a lack of modern, flexible, and secure edtech solutions in the market mean many school leaders, teachers, and staff are left grappling with outdated technology across multiple systems.
Between 2019 and 2024, the number of students enrolling in Australian independent schools increased by 18.5 per cent, compared to a one per cent rise in government-funded schools. The accelerated growth presents an exciting opportunity for IRIS to lend its expertise to education leaders across Australia and deliver a unique school management system scalable as their schools grow.
“As education evolves, schools need modern, cloud-based, and flexible technology so they can focus on bringing the best out of their students. Our expansion into Australia with iSAMS reaffirms our commitment to empowering educators with the tools they need to inspire the next generation of learners,” said Simon Freeman, Managing Director for IRIS Education. “Our experienced team in Sydney are hitting the ground running, and we look forward to welcoming more global schools into the IRIS Education community.”
iSAMS delivers a powerful, scalable solution supporting a range of curricula. Its modular architecture combined with an extensive list of available API integrations via the iSAMS Marketplace allows school leaders to build a custom solution tailored to their unique needs. Additionally, it boasts a unique, fully-integrated financial management solution, iFinance, enabling leadership teams to effectively and strategically manage budgets while reducing costly errors within their management system.
Warren Garrett, Deputy Principal at Reddam House, Sydney, currently uses iSAMS and said, “We’ve particularly appreciated the customisation and integration options, which have enabled us to adapt the system to our school’s unique requirements while preserving established elements. This flexibility has made our transition to iSAMS smoother than we initially expected. The dedicated training, along with the support desk and online resources available to our staff, has been incredibly valuable.”
To support this expansion, iSAMS continues to grow the local, Sydney-based team to offer on the ground support for schools throughout the migration process.
The news of the expansion follows iSAMS’ recent announcement, which introduced US curriculum support for international schools. Last year, iSAMS won the Global Edtech Award for ‘Best EdTech Product – School Management Solutions (SMS)’, recognised for its proficiency in helping schools boost efficiencies and improve student outcomes, while maintaining its exceptional Net Promoter Score for its exceptional standard of service.
About iSAMS by IRIS
Launching more than 20 years ago as the first web-based school management system and acquired by IRIS Software Group (IRIS) in 2020, iSAMS is an all-encompassing, end-to-end solution, enabling leaders, teachers and staff to manage all facets of school life from operational and people management to finance via its integrated financial management tool, iFinance. Additionally, iSAMS is fully cloud-based, so key information can be accessed anytime, anywhere, on any device, from a single source of truth. To learn more about iSAMS, click here.
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