Published: 20th April, 2026
Bringing Clarity to Performance Across a Trust: Ascend Learning Trust and Alps
Written by: Jane Coley, Chief Executive Officer
Ascend Learning Trust is a seven school multi-academy trust serving a diverse range of secondary and primary schools, with a strong focus on equity of outcomes, intelligent use of data and sustainable school improvement across mixed demographics. As a trust, Ascend is committed to understanding not just headline attainment, but the quality of progress being achieved by all groups of pupils, across subjects and across schools.
Ascend Learning Trust chose to work with Alps because they wanted a system that went beyond surface-level performance measures and enabled professional dialogue. In this case study, Chief Executive Officer, Jane Coley, outlines how Alps provides a consistent, research-informed framework that allows leaders and teachers to interrogate subject-level progress with confidence, compare patterns intelligently across the trust and focus effort where it would have the greatest impact.
