SchoolStatus Wins Tech & Learning Award for Best Tools for Back to School

Sacramento, CA—September 17, 2025—SchoolStatus, a leading provider of K-12 attendance and family engagement solutions, today announced that SchoolStatus Attend won Tech & Learning’s Best Tools for Back to School Award for the product’s impact in helping schools improve attendance, engage families, and support student success.

The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence celebrate the most outstanding products offering innovative and effective teaching and learning solutions. A panel of industry experts evaluated products based on versatility, value, and ability to solve real challenges for schools. The judges recognized SchoolStatus Attend for combining predictive analytics, automated outreach, and comprehensive tracking into a systematic approach that helps districts achieve chronic absenteeism rates well below national averages.

AWARD HIGHLIGHTS:

• Recognition: Best Tools for Back to School Award from Tech & Learning
• Category: Primary Winner
• Key Achievement: Helps educators correct and reduce chronic absenteeism
• Educator Impact: Offers robust interventions to tackle the behaviors leading to chronic absenteeism by using positive, proactive outreach processes to work with families on the root causes of absenteeism

“What sets SchoolStatus apart is our comprehensive approach to providing districts with a complete ecosystem: integrated, actionable student data insights, automated positive messaging that celebrates progress, and predictive analytics that enable districts to intervene early,” said Dr. Kara Stern, Director of Education at SchoolStatus. “We are dedicated to working in partnership with districts across the U.S. to address the absenteeism crisis, and recently launched Mission: Attendance, a free, nationwide initiative to help K-12 schools and districts across the country improve student attendance.”

SchoolStatus Attend continues to evolve in order to meet partners’ needs, introducing a first of it’s kind early warning system that analyzes attendance patterns within the first 60 days of school to identify students at risk of developing chronic attendance. This allows educators to intervene early in the school year, before patterns become entrenched.

New product developments add to SchoolStatus Attend’s strong foundation of automatically generated and mailed attendance interventions—sent in families’ home languages so every parent and guardian can be part of attendance conversations. Proactive digital and mailed campaigns celebrate progress and build a culture where attendance becomes part of school and class pride, rather than just compliance. 

Centralized conference logging records why students miss school so districts can see patterns like transportation barriers, health issues, or family circumstances that require additional support. By reducing attendance-related administrative work by up to 75%, SchoolStatus frees educators to focus on supporting students and creating school communities where everyone is included, connected, and encouraged to participate.

Tech & Learning Awards’ editorial team shared that, “The 2025 awards welcomed an abundance of high quality entries. Our panel of industry experts judged the winning products and solutions to be of the highest standard in supporting effective teaching and learning practices when moving into the new school year. Every winner should be immensely proud of their accomplishments—a well-deserved congratulations from the entire Tech & Learning awards team.”

Learn more at schoolstatus.com/attend and join the nationwide Mission: Attendance initiative at schoolstatus.com/mission-attendance.

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