School systems

One engine. A pack for every school system.

Schools everywhere share a skeleton. A pack adds one system's rules, terms and published figures, so the school a trainee runs follows the procedures of their own system.

A public school system · in build
International schools under a regulator · in build
Five more systems, on four continents · sources mapped

Shared and local

The engine holds what every school shares. The pack holds the rest.

Every school, in the engine

A timetable
A register
Students with additional needs
Staff on contracts
A budget
Families
An inspector
Someone the leader answers to

Each system, in its pack

The calendar and terms, and the language the school runs in
Attendance codes and the published statistics the engine is calibrated to
Child protection procedure, and the law on suspension and expulsion
The inspection or accountability framework, and the leadership standard the debrief maps to
The funding model, qualifications and local job titles
Personas written from public material about that system, never from identifiable people

Writing a new pack is research work, with no change to the engine's code. When a framework changes, the pack's data file changes and the engine stays as it is.

The first two packs

A state school and an international one.

The first two packs cover the two main ways schools are run: a public school system, and a regulated market of international schools. Each pack ships with its own fictional school, and every one is called Somewhere.

A public school system

In build

Somewhere High, a synthetic state secondary of 1,000 students in a fictional district built from four real districts' published sources. No real school or district is its model.

Inspection: A national inspectorate and its published framework, graded on a six-point scale. The new framework due in 2028 will replace a data file, leaving the engine as it is.
Child protection: The national child protection guidance, run as fixed steps with timers.
Attendance and suspension: The national guidance on attendance, suspension and expulsion. Attendance is recorded per half-day, using the national code list.
Additional support: The law on additional needs, including statutory support plans and their deadlines.
Money and staffing: Devolved school budgets with an equity grant tied to student poverty, and national conditions for teachers, including a 35-hour week and a cap on class contact.
Qualifications: National qualifications at three levels, run by a national awarding body.
Leadership standard: The national professional standard for school leaders.
Calibration: Three published attendance figures, matched within 0.2 points. See the evidence.

International schools under a regulator

In build

Somewhere International, a synthetic secondary of 1,000 students teaching a national curriculum from abroad, owned by an investment company and run by a group of four schools. No real school is its model.

Regulator and inspection: A private-schools regulator and its inspection framework: six standards and 17 indicators on a six-point scale. From 2026–27, notice of a visit is no more than 24 hours.
Child protection: The national child protection law. The school's child protection specialist refers to the ministry's unit within 24 hours where the rules require.
Governance: An owner, an operator and a five-member board, each played as its own agent, with targets that can conflict with the principal's.
Fees and enrolment: The regulator approves every fee. Income follows the roll, and each family's chance of returning moves with satisfaction, fees and the school's rating.
Calendar and curriculum: A shorter school day in Ramadan, and compulsory national subjects taught alongside the curriculum from abroad.
Staffing: Most teachers recruited from abroad on fixed-term contracts, with a licence required to teach and a recruitment year that shapes every term.
Exams: International GCSE and International A level.
Still open: The planned leadership map is to the four domains of the national licence for school leaders. The pack has no suspension or staff-absence procedure yet, so those pressures run only in the public-system pack for now.

Sources mapped

The public frameworks already exist.

Every major school system publishes the frameworks a pack draws on. Five more systems, on four continents, have their sources mapped so far, checked in October 2026.

5 of 5

publish an inspection or accountability framework

5 of 5

publish a child protection law or policy with set reporting steps

3 of 5

publish a regular attendance series the engine can be calibrated to

Where a system publishes no attendance series, a design partner supplies the target and the pack marks it as partner data.

Kinds of pack

Four families of pack.

Public school systems

A nation, a state or province, or a large district.

For ministries, districts and leadership programmes

International schools, by regulator

Markets where a regulator licenses and inspects private schools.

For school groups and associations

International curricula

A national curriculum taught abroad, Cambridge or the International Baccalaureate.

For associations and accrediting bodies

School-group packs

A group's own policies and standards, layered over its regulator's pack.

For the group's own academy

Building a pack

Every fact carries its source.

A pack checker fails any procedure step with no owner or no route from the first step, and lists every open item.
A serving school leader from that system reviews the pack and its persona library.
A child protection lead reviews its storyline library before use, then once a year.
Each new pack is calibrated against its own system's published figures, because a fit in one system should not be assumed to transfer to another.

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Each new pack is reviewed by a serving school leader from that system. A pilot in a new system starts with building its pack together.

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