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Missing 10% of the school year is chronic absenteeism. Most schools don't catch it in time.
the threshold for chronic absenteeism
students nationally meets that threshold
is the intervention that works
Schools know what to do. The problem is doing it reliably, every week, for every student, without it falling on one person with a spreadsheet and a Gmail account.
The workflow breaks. Students fall through.
Pulling reports, building mail merges, tracking responses by hand. It works when it happens. It rarely happens consistently.
When that person is out, overwhelmed, or hitting Gmail's sending limits, outreach stops. Patterns go unnoticed.
By the time a student appears on a chronic absenteeism report, weeks have already passed. The early intervention window is gone.
From absence to outreach, automatically.
Pulls from your SIS automatically. Delay logic prevents false triggers from late tardy corrections.
SMS goes out to the right guardian. Two-way conversation. No staff involvement.
Reason, return date, escalation status. Structured and logged automatically.
Front desk, counselor, or school leadership, based on rules you configure.
When outreach doesn't resolve the absence, Attendance Assistant escalates automatically. Triggers include no response after multiple attempts, a threshold rule being met, a parent signaling an ongoing situation or requesting help directly, or an assessment-day absence requiring review. The assigned staff member receives the student record, the full family conversation, the trigger reason, and a recommended next step. No coordination required.
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For every qualifying absence, Attendance Assistant texts the guardian, captures the response, and logs it automatically. No staff involvement.
When a student hits a configurable threshold, Attendance Assistant notifies the right staff member automatically. The full response history travels with the alert, while the intervention window is still open.
Attendance Assistant generates a weekly summary automatically. Students who need follow-up are flagged. Exception cases route to staff. No spreadsheets.
When a student misses the same class repeatedly, Attendance Assistant uses a dedicated outreach prompt and routes the case to the appropriate support staff for review.
A student who leaves class repeatedly for the nurse may not look like an attendance case. The pattern shows up in the visit log. Because August connects health and attendance records, your team sees the full picture, not just what the SIS reports.
August brings health, behavioral health, learning support, and administration onto one connected platform. Every person supporting a student is working from the same picture. We'd love to show you what that looks like for your school.
