A promotional image for SchoolMessenger's Safe Arrival system. It features an illustration of a school building with a megaphone and communication icons, next to a smartphone showing the app.

One of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely to school every day. To improve our safe arrival process, we are adding a new system that will make it easier for you to report – and respond to – school absences of your student.

The new student absence reporting system will let you use the Converse #1 or School Messenger mobile app, or the interactive toll-free (844-863-4701) phone line to report an absence in advance. As a result, it will take the school less time to verify student attendance, and less time to begin to notify parents and guardians of absences that were unexpected or unplanned.

This time savings makes it faster and more efficient to account for all students and their safety.

If your student is marked absent and the absence hasn’t been explained in advance, our new Safe Arrival system within the School Messenger app will be able to rapidly contact you by automated phone call, text message, email, or push notification to get a reason for the absence. Calls and contacts will continue until you choose an option to explain the absence.

This new, automated Safe Arrival process is within our School Messenger mobile app, which is available for iOS and Android devices. It’ll be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make it convenient for you to report future absences.