Transforming Student Outcomes by Connecting Educators and Families

Education is facing real challenges. Years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted classrooms nationwide, its impact continues to shape student outcomes. Chronic absenteeism is still stubbornly high. Reading progress has stalled. And families want more information and involvement in their children’s academic journeys. 

At SchoolStatus, we believe the answer starts with a connection. Better attendance, stronger reading skills, and higher graduation rates all depend on educators and families working in sync to support students.  

Family Engagement as the Foundation for Student Outcomes

Research is consistent: students perform better when their families are informed and involved. 

Our integrated suite of solutions gives educators the data and the tools to reach families with messages that are personal, timely, and delivered in the family’s preferred language. When there is a two-way dialogue built on a foundation of trust, families become the most valuable partners a district has. 

Over the past few years, we’ve joined forces with top companies in K-12 to achieve that vision: Attention2Attendance, School Innovations & Achievement (SI&A), ClassTag, TeachBoost, Operoo, SchoolNow, and Smore. We chose to incorporate each of these remarkable products because of their innovation and impact on students’ lives.

These products were upgraded and rebranded to form a unique combination of solutions that supports educators and families throughout the education ecosystem.

• SchoolStatus Attend enables districts to use proactive family engagement to reduce chronic absenteeism 
• SchoolStatus Connect combines student data (including attendance, behavior, academics, and assessments) with communication tools so educators can send ultra-personalized two-way messages 
• SchoolStatus Literacy helps districts keep families up to date on student literacy progress, so they can promote better reading at home
• SchoolStatus Forms & Flows saves educators hours of time they would have spent managing paper forms and manual workflows
• SchoolStatus Boost enables administrators to complete double the observations in half the time and set collaborative goals that support educator development
• SchoolStatus Sites helps districts create and manage accessible, easy-to-use  websites without complicated code

Data + Action = Impact

Our deep belief in family partnerships is built on a passion for data. 

SchoolStatus launched over a decade ago to meet a known need in education: the disconnect between what teachers see every day and what families hear about at home. Our core team included former educators and policy makers who believed that the solution to many of education’s challenges lies at the intersection of data and action. An educator who has access to meaningful data, contacts the right families at the right time, and builds a personalized plan can truly change student outcomes. 

This initially led to the Student Card, a first-of-its-kind solution that surfaces attendance trends, grades, behavior infractions, and assessment scores in one place. This allows educators to look at one screen, understand where a student stands, and then communicate with their family in a meaningful way.

Now, all of our solutions are built on the question of how we can use data to inform actions that improve student and district outcomes.

Connecting Around Attendance

Educators and families working together is especially important when it comes to chronic absenteeism. 

SchoolStatus Attend, formerly Attention2Attendance, was built to reduce chronic absenteeism and ensure more kids come to class engaged and ready to learn. For more than 20 years, we’ve worked side-by-side with educators and administrators to build the best attendance management solution on the market, with consistently positive results for millions of students. 

And we continue innovating and adapting. Our Early Warning Insights feature uses predictive insights to flag students at risk of chronic absenteeism after just 60 days of school. When educators reach families early, in their language, about the specific barriers a student is facing, attendance improves. We also automate routine intervention letters and texts so attendance teams can focus on meaningful outreach instead of manual tracking and mailing.

Connecting Around Student Progress 

Families deserve frequent, clear communication about how their children are progressing in school. This includes information on their assessment scores, grades, and behavior. 

SchoolStatus Connect brings data from various sources together to enable educators to keep families informed. That means a teacher can send a message about how a student’s attendance is affecting their math scores. Or, a principal can email all families whose students have a higher-than-average number of absences. These kinds of conversations help families understand what’s really happening at school so they can be part of the change. 

Connecting Around Literacy

Family partnerships can also make a huge difference for student literacy. Families want to help their children become strong readers, but most simply don’t know where their child stands. Research consistently shows that the vast majority of parents and guardians do not know their child’s real reading level. That gap represents a failure in communication. 

SchoolStatus Literacy closes that gap. The solution integrates with existing assessment platforms and sends families personalized updates that include their child’s reading score, how it compares to peers, and specific activities they can do at home to help. Families who know their child’s reading level and receive clear next steps become active partners in literacy progress. Reading gains that stall at school can accelerate at home when the right information reaches the right people.

Supporting the Educators Who Make It Happen

Educators have been navigating challenging terrain over the last few years. Teachers and administrators who carry a heavy load and are often working with fragmented systems have less capacity for the human-to-human work that has the biggest impact for students and families. They need time-saving tools that enable quick access to real-time information for better decision-making. 

SchoolStatus Forms and Flows digitizes school forms and automates the workflows around them, including approvals, routing, and follow-up communications, so staff invest time in students rather than paperwork. Districts report saving hundreds of hours per year that can be redirected to meaningful engagement. 

SchoolStatus Boost supports educator growth through streamlined observations, coaching cycles, and goal setting aligned to district priorities. When teachers grow, students benefit. Districts using Boost have seen a 90% teacher participation rate in coaching cycles and twice as many observations conducted in half the time.

A Stronger Future for Every Student

Improved attendance, higher graduation rates, and stronger reading skills all trace back to trust between educators and families. SchoolStatus helps districts build that trust at scale through an integrated suite of solutions that centralizes disparate data, streamlines attendance management, shifts communication from compliance to relationship building, and gives every educator a complete picture of each student.

The relationships are real. The outcomes follow. When educators and families stay connected on the topics that matter most, students succeed.

SchoolStatus connects educators and families around the topics that matter most. The company partners with K-12 districts to improve attendance, engage families, and build trust so students can succeed. SchoolStatus supports districts in all 50 states and serves more than 22 million students nationwide.