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Student Information System (SIS) is a system to manage timely and accurate student data. It is an important tool for improving and driving a quality of education. SIS is utilized in all levels of educational managements for students, parents, teachers, schools, municipalities, states, and federal governments. This paper focuses on SIS for a basic education (i.e. primary and secondary schools). A good SIS should be able to support educational achievements in many ways such as: 1) enhancement of individual student performance; 2) assessment of teachers’ and schools’ efficiency; 3) track student information across school and grade registrations; 4) produce standard reports to states and federal governments for educational policy making; and 5) publish school or state performance reports to public in order to promote improvement and competition. This paper reviews outstanding SISs from the United Kingdom (UK) and many states in the United States of America (USA) including Illinois, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. Among these SISs, there are many common features. For example, they could organize a basic student information such as demographics, registrations and enrollments, attendances, grades, class schedules, etc. Also, there are many distinct features across these SISs. Some systems help in distributions of educational resources to students, while some systems provide ways to track individual student information over time from school to school or district to district. Variety in these systems serve different purposes of educational management. Their dominant features are discussed and compared in this paper. Then, some recommendations are proposed to leverage an existing SIS in Thailand.