For NYC public schools and community school partners
BrainBridge for New York City schools.
Each morning’s ATS file becomes every staff member’s follow-up list. Calls and texts are logged once, ready for ILOG, and the weekly attendance meeting is already built, with the records Chancellor’s Regulation A-210 asks for.
Chancellor’s Regulation A-210 · June 18, 2026
The regulation, line by line.
The reissued A-210 is specific about what a school must do on every absence day. Here is what it says, and where each piece happens in BrainBridge.
- Contact the family every day a student is absent, with a personal phone call as the primary method.
- The daily list puts the call first: number, language, last outcome and a short script. Texts are secondary, and a person sends each one.
- Record every outreach, reason code and intervention in ILOG.
- Each logged contact has a Copy for ILOG button with the date, outcome and reason, so the entry takes seconds, not a second system.
- Hold weekly Attendance Committee meetings that identify and resolve barriers.
- The agenda is built from the week’s data: students nearing a Form 407 referral, the newly chronic, rising absences and open follow-ups, each with an owner and a due date.
- ATS generates a Form 407 referral at 10 consecutive absences, sooner after a prior 407, and for Pre-K to grade 8 at 20 absences over four months.
- Students with 6 or more absences in a row are flagged before ATS generates the referral, so the reason is known and coded first.
- For elementary and middle school students with child-welfare involvement: same-day personal calls, no automated calling (Section III.I).
- These students are flagged on every screen, and texting is off for them. They stay on the call list for a same-day personal call, and nothing goes out without a staff member.
Summarized from Chancellor’s Regulation A-210 (issued June 18, 2026). The regulation governs; BrainBridge is a tool for meeting it.
Every school day
Your school’s systems, by name.
NYC schools see the words their staff already use: ATS, OSIS, ILOG, Form 407 and A-210.
The ATS file, every morning
Drop in the RCUA or RDAL absence report from ATS. BrainBridge matches each student by OSIS number to your roster, contacts and languages, and every staff member’s follow-up list is ready. No integration project.
Copy for ILOG
Every logged call and text has a Copy for ILOG button with the date, outcome and reason.
Ahead of a Form 407
Students with 6 or more absences in a row are flagged before ATS generates the referral, so the reason is known and coded first.
The weekly attendance team meeting
The Attendance Committee agenda builds itself from the week: who is near a Form 407, who slipped, every open follow-up, and an owner and a date for every next step.
Chronic absence in New York City
One in three, for the third year.
About one New York City public school student in three is chronically absent. Community schools carry much of the work: each pairs the school with a community-based organization, and reducing chronic absenteeism is one of the main things the model is asked to do. RAND’s 2020 study found the initiative improved attendance and reduced chronic absenteeism in elementary, middle and high schools.
CBO staff don’t need ATS access. The school drops in the ATS file, and CBO staff see only the follow-ups on their own caseload.
Look up any NYC school’s rate →Attendance for community schools →
33.5%
of NYC public school students were chronically absent in 2025-26, about the same as 2024-25 (33.3%).
290,486
students were chronically absent in 2024-25 (33.3%), up from 26.5% in 2018-19.
421
community schools, each paired with a community-based organization.
Buying in New York City
One school. One license. A principal’s purchase.
A school license covers every staff member and every student, with setup, data loading, training and family texts included. It is under the principal’s purchasing authority, and BrainBridge is a NYC-certified MBE and FAMIS vendor, so a school can buy directly, without a bid process. A superintendent’s office can license several schools on one purchase order, and city agencies can award directly to a certified M/WBE without a formal competition.
NYC-certified MBE
New York City-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MWCERT2025-146), eligible for M/WBE noncompetitive awards.
NYC Public Schools vendor
FAMIS vendor BRA009539. Principals purchase with a standard purchase order.
Registered in PASSPort
Ready for city agency solicitations, from small purchases to RFPs.
Setup, honestly
What happens between “yes” and the first list.
In New York City, every software tool that touches student data needs NYCPS privacy and security approval before a school can use it. We do the paperwork; the principal files it. Here is the whole timeline.
Today
See it with sample data
A working demo with made-up students that takes about three minutes. Nothing to install.
Week 1
Work order and ERMA
One-page work order, under the principal’s purchasing authority. We prepare the full NYCPS privacy package; the principal files the ERMA request with it.
Privacy review
We wait with you
The NYCPS privacy and security review usually takes a few months. No student data touches BrainBridge until it is approved. Nothing is billed before approval.
Day 1 after approval
Live by lunch
Staff accounts, the first ATS file, every list ready. We load the data and train the team in person.
- FERPA school-official terms in our data agreement
- NY Education Law 2-d and the Parents’ Bill of Rights
- We sign the NYCPS Data Processing Agreement
- Data stored in the United States, encrypted, never sold
- Deleted when the school asks
Guides and school data
- Form 407, step by step →
What triggers a Form 407 referral, the deadlines, and how a school closes one.
- The weekly attendance meeting →
What A-210 asks of the attendance team, who belongs in the room, and a 30-minute agenda.
- What A-210 requires →
The regulation’s requirements in short, with section numbers.
- Look up any NYC public school →
Chronic absenteeism at every NYC public school, from the city’s end-of-year data.
- NYC charter schools →
Chronic absenteeism at NYC charter schools, from New York State report card data.
Chronic absenteeism by district
- District 1
- District 2
- District 3
- District 4
- District 5
- District 6
- District 7
- District 8
- District 9
- District 10
- District 11
- District 12
- District 13
- District 14
- District 15
- District 16
- District 17
- District 18
- District 19
- District 20
- District 21
- District 22
- District 23
- District 24
- District 25
- District 26
- District 27
- District 28
- District 29
- District 30
- District 31
- District 32
- District 75
Sources
- 1. NYC Public Schools, Chancellor’s Regulation A-210, issued June 18, 2026.
- 2. Chalkbeat New York, “NYC chronic absenteeism rates stubbornly high,” Sept. 17, 2026, reporting the Mayor’s Management Report: 33.5% in 2025-26.
- 3. NYC Public Schools, End-of-Year Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Data: 290,486 students (33.3%) in 2024-25; 26.5% in 2018-19.
- 4. NYC Public Schools, Office of Community Schools.
- 5. RAND Corporation, “What Is the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative?” (2020).
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 New York City sample data.
Open the New York City version of the demo, with made-up students, or write to us and a person will answer the same school day.