For school placement consultants
School placement consultant software.
Every family’s school search, organized.
Plarelo gives school placement consultants one place to capture each family’s brief, shortlist and compare schools, and track admissions and enrolment deadlines alongside the rest of the move, in a workspace the family can see too.
Free for your first family · No credit card
Built for
Why school placement gets messy
The shortlist lives in a spreadsheet, the reasoning lives in your inbox.
School options sit in one file, visit notes in another, and the family’s reactions are buried in email and WhatsApp. When a parent asks why a school dropped off the list three weeks ago, you have to reconstruct it.
Admissions deadlines don’t wait for the rest of the move.
Application windows open months ahead, waiting lists fill early, and enrolment can hinge on a registered address, translated school records, or a placement test. If the visa or the house slips, the school place is often what’s really at risk.
Families want to know where things stand, constantly.
Moving with children is stressful, and the school question is usually the one keeping parents up at night. Without a shared view of the shortlist and the next deadline, every update is a call or an email you have to write.
From the family’s brief to a shared school plan
Capture the family’s school brief
A structured intake records what you need before you start searching, so the brief doesn’t depend on what the parents remember to mention on the first call.
See the school deadlines next to the move date.
Application windows, school visits, record translations, and enrolment sit on the same timeline as the visa appointment and the move itself, so if the move date shifts you can see straight away which school deadline is now at risk, and so can the family.
Know when a family has done their part.
When parents complete a paperwork step, tick off a task, or leave a note on a school, it appears in one activity feed across all your families. Click an entry to open the record and update it in place, and get an email when you’re away, so you chase only the families who actually need it.
What you get
Built around how school placement for relocating families actually works.
A structured school brief
Children’s ages, destination, move date, public or private, local or international curriculum, and language of instruction, captured in one intake instead of a first-call notepad.
Shortlist and compare schools
Each school is an option on one decision. Mark options relevant or not relevant, add links and descriptions, and compare the shortlist side by side with the family.
Enrolment and recognition paperwork
Enrolment and, where the destination requires it, recognition of foreign school records are broken into steps the family can tick off, so a missing translation shows up early.
Every date on one timeline
Application windows, visits, record translations, and enrolment sit on one timeline next to the move date, so a slipped move shows you straight away which school deadline is at risk.
Private follow-up dates
Set a follow-up date on any decision, document, or task, visible only to you. Your open follow-ups across every family are listed in one place, so nothing waits on your memory.
Notes in context
Questions and visit impressions sit on the item they’re about, threaded, instead of scattered across email. Anyone on the project can pick up the conversation.
Every family in one dashboard
See each family’s progress at a glance, follow a live feed of what changed across all of them, and get an email when a family updates their plan.
Templates for the cities you know
Save a refined school plan as a template, such as “Lisbon, international curriculum, two children”, and start the next similar family from it in seconds.
Export to PDF
Export decisions to a clean PDF when a family wants something to read offline or share with a partner who isn’t on the project.
Questions, answered
What is school placement consultant software?
It’s a workspace for consultants who find school places for relocating families. Plarelo captures the family’s school brief, holds your shortlist and the enrolment paperwork for the destination, and gives you and the family one shared place to compare schools, track admissions deadlines, and see what’s left to do.
Can I reuse my work for the next family?
Yes. Save any plan as a template, shortlist, paperwork, and tasks included, such as “Lisbon, international curriculum”. The next family moving to the same city starts from it in seconds, and you tailor the details to their children.
I only handle schools. Do I have to manage the whole move?
No. A plan can hold just the school shortlist and the admissions paperwork. And if the family already plans their move in Plarelo, they can invite you into their project, so you see the move date, the visa timeline, and the housing search next to the schools, which is often exactly what decides the placement.
Can the family see the shortlist and the deadlines?
Yes. Invite the parents to their project and they see the shortlist, the paperwork steps, and the timeline, and can add notes and tick off tasks. Follow-up dates you set stay private to you.
Does Plarelo submit school applications?
No. Applications still go through each school or education authority. Plarelo tracks them: which schools are on the shortlist, what each application needs, when it’s due, and what the family still has to send.
What does it cost?
Your first family is free, with every tool included. Managing more than one family at a time is a paid plan; get in touch through our contact page and we’ll set you up.
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