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NOOR — Saudi Arabia's National Education Management Information System

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh · See the Saudi Arabia profile · See the Riyadh profile

Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 59% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Saudi Arabia's national NOOR platform runs enrolment, attendance, grading and communications for over 12 million users across 33,000+ schools, layering in dashboards and early predictive-analytics features, though a 2025 peer review cautions its efficiency figures are ministry se

12 million+
Registered system users
33,000+
Schools covered
6.5 million
Students served
500,000
Teachers served
65 %
Reduction in administrative processing time
70 %
Reduction in grade-processing time
from 15% to under 3%
Data-entry error rate
99.5 %
System uptime

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia
Period
2012–ongoing
Keywords
education management information system, administration, digitalisation, decision support, e-government

Context

NOOR is Saudi Arabia's national Education Management Information System, launched around 2012 and now serving more than 12 million users across over 33,000 schools. It centralises enrolment, attendance, grade processing and family/teacher communication, and increasingly includes decision-support dashboards with emerging predictive-analytics capabilities.

Objectives

NOOR was built to digitise and centralise core school-administration processes nationwide, reduce manual administrative burden, and support data-informed decision-making across the Ministry of Education.

Activities

The platform manages enrolment, attendance and grade processing for roughly 6.5 million students and 500,000 teachers, and delivers more than 400 digital services through a single national system.

Results

Ministry-reported figures cited in the 2025 peer-reviewed profile include a 65% reduction in administrative processing time, a 70% reduction in grade-processing time, a fall in data-entry error rates from 15% to under 3%, roughly 45% fewer administrative errors, about 60% faster inter-departmental information exchange, and 99.5% system uptime.

Conclusions

The 2025 peer review explicitly cautions that 'associations reported between the NOOR platform and educational outcomes must not be interpreted as causal effects,' noting the figures are ministry self-reported rather than independently verified — a key limitation for a system operating at this scale.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)

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