Attendance Follow-up · for schools
Every student, chronically present.
BrainBridge turns each morning’s attendance file into every staff member’s follow-up list, logs every family contact, and builds the weekly attendance meeting. It works with the attendance export from your student information system.
A working demo with made-up students. Two quick fields, no call.
Each staff member’s follow-ups for this morning, with the family’s number, language and last outcome.
- 22.6%of U.S. students were chronically absent in 2024-25. Before the pandemic it was about 15%.
- Day 1Follow-up starts on the first missed day. The list makes it the first thing staff see.
- One fileThe attendance export from your student information system in, everyone’s follow-up list out. No integration project.
- MBECertified Minority Business Enterprise.
How it works
One file in the morning. The whole day follows.
No SIS integration, no new data entry. BrainBridge works from the attendance export your school already pulls every day.
- 1
The attendance file comes in
Each morning, drop in the attendance export from your student information system. BrainBridge matches it to your roster, contacts and languages. No integration project, no IT ticket.
- 2
Everyone gets their list
Each staff member sees exactly who to call today, the family’s number and language, what was tried last time, and a short call script. Texts go out in the family’s language. One tap logs the outcome.
- 3
Monday is already prepared
The weekly attendance meeting agenda builds itself from the week: students absent several days in a row, the newly chronic, rising absences and open follow-ups, with an owner and a date for every next step.
Attendance Follow-up, up close.
Everything an attendance team does in a week, in one calm place: the morning list, the calls and texts, the weekly meeting and a record of every contact.
A daily follow-up list
Each morning, every staff member sees which students to check on and what has already been tried.
Attendance file in, lists out
Drop today’s attendance file and everyone’s follow-up list is ready.
The weekly meeting agenda builds itself
Built from last week’s data, with an owner and a due date for every next step.
Texts from each staff member’s school-assigned line
Families reply to the person who wrote to them, and every conversation is logged.
One click to your contact log
Each logged contact can be copied with the date, outcome and reason, ready for your school’s records.
Records, kept as you work
Every contact, reason and next step is kept with the date and the staff member who did it.
All screens show sample data. No real students.
State and district rules
Built for your district’s rules.
Staff see your district’s own words for attendance, student IDs and contact logs, never another district’s. And most state attendance laws ask for the same record: early notice to families, documented contact, a team that meets, and a plan for each student. BrainBridge keeps that record as staff work.
- Early notice to families
- The list starts on the first missed day. Calls and texts are logged with the date and outcome, and texts can go out in the family’s language.
- Documented contact
- Each contact is recorded once, with the reason for the absence, and one click copies it for your district’s contact log.
- A team that meets
- The weekly attendance meeting agenda is built from the week’s data, with an owner and a due date for every next step.
- A plan for each student
- Next steps, owners and due dates stay with the student, so the plan is written as the work happens.
Your state’s law and your district’s policy govern; BrainBridge is a tool for keeping the record.
Chronically present, every day matters.
More than one in five U.S. students missed at least 10% of the 2024-25 school year. Before the pandemic it was about 15%. What works is not complicated: someone notices the first missed day, reaches the family, keeps a record, and the team looks at the list every week. Our job is to make that the easiest thing a school does, wherever chronic absence is the quiet reason students fall behind.
The numbers, and what the research says works →Attendance for community schools →
Sources: American Enterprise Institute (2026); Coalition for Community Schools (2026); Rogers and Feller (2018), Robinson et al. (2018) and Harvard Ed. Magazine (2024); American Institutes for Research, federal texting trial (2020).
47 states
have community schools, about 5,600 in all, where coordinators and partner staff do much of the attendance work.
10–15%
fewer chronically absent students when letters told families their child’s real absence count, in randomized trials before the pandemic.
3.5–7.3
points less chronic absence for students with many past absences when families got attendance texts, in a federal trial in 108 elementary schools.
Buying
One school, or every school in the district.
A school license covers every staff member and every student, with setup, data loading, training and family texts included. A district or a community-school partner can license several schools on one purchase order. BrainBridge is a certified Minority Business Enterprise, and we complete your vendor setup and security review with you.
Write to us for a quote and a one-page order form.
Ask for a quote
One email. You get the price, the order form and our privacy and security documents, ready for your district’s review.
Setup, honestly
What happens between “yes” and the first list.
Districts review any software that touches student data before staff can use it. We do the paperwork with you. Here is the whole path, from the first agreement to the first list.
Step 1
Your privacy agreement
We sign your district’s data privacy agreement, including the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement where your state uses it.
Step 2
Your security review
We answer your security questionnaire. No student data touches BrainBridge until your district approves.
Step 3
One attendance export
You upload one attendance export from your student information system. BrainBridge matches the columns, and you check them.
The next morning
Every list is ready
Every staff member has a follow-up list. We train your team, and a person answers questions the same school day.
- FERPA school-official terms in our data agreement
- State student privacy laws, through the agreement we sign
- Data stored in the United States, encrypted, never sold
- Generative AI off
- Deleted when you ask
Solutions · custom work
Focused tools for schools, nonprofits and public agencies.
Data and reporting, compliance tracking, workflow tools and imports from the systems you already use. Built with your team, priced for public budgets, by a certified Minority Business Enterprise.
Built to be trusted with student data.
Security and compliance →Stored in the United States
All customer data is stored in the US.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
TLS in transit, and encryption at rest for stored data.
Only what you’re assigned
Staff see only their schools, programs and students.
A person presses send
Nothing goes to a family without a staff member.
Never sold
No selling, no advertising, no marketing profiles.
See it with sample data.
Open a working demo with made-up students (it takes about three minutes), or write to us and a person will answer the same school day.
BrainBridge LLC is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). We build attendance follow-up for public schools, charter schools, districts and community-school partners across the country.