SchoolMessenger SafeArrival

Simplifying attendance. Strengthening student safety. Make attendance management faster and easier with automated, mobile, two‑way absence reporting—saving time, reducing costs, and enhancing student safety. [web:389]

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“We turned to SchoolMessenger SafeArrival for a convenient way for parents to report absences and, in the process, created more time for school secretaries who were spending up to three-quarters of their day making calls to home.” [web:389]

Ted Farrell • Superintendent of Education • Niagara Catholic District School Board [web:389]

Ensuring accurate attendance tracking• Scale

Districts

300

Students

Unexcused absences identified (2024)

16M

Automated absence reconciliation helps staff quickly identify unaccounted-for students and reduces manual follow-up. [web:389]

Make tracking and updating unexcused absences easy

SafeArrival automates reporting and recording so staff spend less time on calls and more time supporting students. [web:389]

Improve administrative efficiency

Automate absence reporting/recording to reduce staff workload and maintain accurate, error-free attendance records.

Enhance student safety

Quickly identify unreported absences and follow up; automated alerts notify families if a child hasn’t arrived and no absence was reported.

Better family engagement

Families report absences by phone, app, or online portal and receive immediate confirmation—strengthening transparency and trust.

Delivery and reporting that you need

Mobile, voice, and web tools help families report absences quickly, while admin tools reconcile SIS absences and automate unexplained absence notifications. [web:389]

Mobile, voice, and web tools

Families can excuse absences in the app or web interface, call a toll‑free line, and respond to absence notifications by phone.

Administrative tools

Reconcile SIS absences with family-reported absences, auto-notify unexplained absences via phone/email/text/push, and update the SIS as excuses arrive.

Family reporting tool

Report upcoming absences or excuse after the fact, send alerts for all children, and provide reasons in one simple communication.

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SafeArrival workflowTwo‑way

Family reports absence

App, web, or toll‑free phone line.

SIS absence recorded

SafeArrival reconciles automatically.

Unexplained absence

Auto alerts via SMS/email/voice/push.

Excuse submitted

Updates SIS, reduces office workload.

Safety + efficiency

Find true unexcused absences faster and help ensure students are accounted for.

Ready to update absence tracking?

Ready to modernize attendance reporting?

Automate absence reconciliation, alert families quickly, and give parents convenient reporting tools—while strengthening student safety. [web:389]

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