Feature · Infirmary & Health

A health record for every student, kept by the school infirmary

School infirmary software keeps a student's health record where the school can find it — the check-ups, the vitals, the vision and hearing tests, all on the same student record the rest of the school runs on. It is a health history that follows the child from year to year, not a form somebody files and loses.

  • Vitals, vision and hearing
  • A history, not a one-off form
  • Health data, access-controlled
  • Part of the student health record

What a check-up records

The vitals a check-up takes, kept with the date

A school health check-up measures a few things — height, weight, the BMI that follows from them, and readings like temperature where they are taken. Because every check-up is dated and kept, the numbers stop being a snapshot and start being a line you can follow.

Recorded by the infirmary onto the student’s own record.

Vision & hearing

Kept left and right, so a change shows up

Eye and ear screening is recorded per side and kept with the rest of the check-up. That matters less on the day and more a year later: the first sign a child needs to be seen is usually one reading that has slipped since the last test.

Vision Snellen

  • Left eye 6 / 6
  • Right eye 6 / 9 down from 6 / 6 last year

Hearing Screening

  • Left ear Normal
  • Right ear Normal

The history is the point

One check-up is a form. Four is a health record.

Kept year on year, the numbers become a line a school can read — and a line is what shows the growth that stalled, the weight that jumped, or the eyesight that slipped. A form in a drawer shows none of that, because there is nothing to compare it to.

  • Every check-up kept and dated on the one record
  • Vitals, vision and hearing, compared to last year
  • Follows the child, not the class or the year

Sample record, one student. cm against the year of each check-up.

An illustration of a student's health history: height recorded at four yearly check-ups — 132 cm in 2023, 138 in 2024, 143 in 2025 and 148 in 2026 — shown as a rising line, with this year's gain of five centimetres highlighted. Sample readings, not a real child.

Whose eyes

Health data is not open to every login

A child’s medical history is not the same as their attendance, and it should not be as easy to open. Access is role-based, so the infirmary and the people a school chooses can see the record — and the rest of the staff cannot.

  • The infirmary Keeps and sees the full health record — the check-ups, the vitals, the tests and the history.
  • Whoever the school names Sees it because the school decided they should. Access is granted, not assumed to come with a login.
  • A class teacher Sees attendance and marks, not a child's medical history — unless the school has explicitly given that access.

Before you assume it

Four things this does not do

Health software attracts the biggest assumptions, so it is worth being exact about where this stops. These are four a school might expect. None of them are here.

  • Diagnose anything It records what a check-up found — a height, a reading, a note. It does not interpret them or decide what they mean. A reading is a reading, not a verdict.
  • Prescribe or dispense There are no prescriptions here, no medicine inventory and no dispensing log. It is a record of a child’s health, not a pharmacy.
  • Be a hospital system This is a school's health record, not a clinician's tool. A school or group that needs a full clinic or hospital system is looking at Edoovi HMS, which the same team builds.
  • Watch vitals in real time It is a record a school reads, not a monitor that watches a child or an alarm that raises an emergency. What it holds is history, entered by the infirmary.

Health record questions

What schools ask about the infirmary record

What is school infirmary software?

It is where a school keeps its students' health records — the check-ups the infirmary does, the vitals it measures, the vision and hearing tests, and the history of all of it per student. It sits on the same student record the rest of the school uses, so a child's health information is not in a separate register that gets lost.

What does a check-up record hold?

The vitals a school health check-up measures — height, weight and the BMI that follows from them, and readings like temperature where they are taken — together with the date and who recorded it. Because each check-up is dated, the record becomes a history rather than a single snapshot.

Does it keep vision and hearing tests?

Yes. Vision and hearing test results are recorded per student, left and right, so a change from one year's test to the next is visible on the record rather than lost between two loose forms. That trend is often the first sign a school notices a child needs to be seen.

Who can see a student's health record?

Health data is not open to everyone with a login. Access is role-based, so the infirmary and the people a school decides should see it can, and a class teacher looking at attendance cannot open a child's medical history. It is the first thing to settle about health data, not the last.

Is this a hospital or clinic system?

No, and it does not pretend to be. There is no diagnosis, no prescription and no medicine inventory here — it is a school's health record, not a clinician's. A school or group that needs a full hospital or clinic system is looking at Edoovi HMS, which the same team builds, rather than at this.

Which plan includes the infirmary?

The health tab is part of the student record, and the infirmary's check-ups and history build on it. Because it is not listed as a separate module in a plan tier, the honest answer for your school is one to confirm on the demo with your plan in front of us rather than to guess at here.

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Bring one class’s check-up sheet — the vitals, the vision and hearing results — and we will set it up on a real student record so you can see the history build, and the access work, before you decide anything.

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