Texas HB 1698 requires Austin ISD students to keep phones off and stored all day. StudentMsg routes your text to their school email — and their reply comes straight back to your phone. No app. No phone at school. Just the connection you need.
Austin ISD's phone-free policy requires all personal phones to be stored from arrival through dismissal. The district was an early supporter of the Texas law and implemented it swiftly across all campuses serving Austin's urban neighborhoods.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Travis County.
Austin ISD's 78,000 students span neighborhoods from South Austin to North Loop. For working parents and families with complicated pickups, the phone ban created daily logistical headaches that StudentMsg was built to solve.
"We live in Travis Heights and my kids take the bus. Plans change constantly — late buses, different pickup spots. I used to just text. Now I'm driving around hoping I guessed right. StudentMsg gave me back that certainty."— Austin ISD parent, Travis Heights
How It Works
StudentMsg works in both directions — you can reach your student any time, and your student can reach you any time. It all runs through the school email account Austin ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Austin ISD-issued device. No phone required at school.
Your student can also start the conversation — they email their StudentMsg address from their school device any time. That email arrives on your phone as a text within seconds.
Reply to their text and they get another email. They reply and you get another text. Back and forth, private, instant — and the school office never needs to be involved.
Works Both Ways
Whether you need to tell your Austin ISD student about a pickup change — or they need to tell you something they'd never say through the nurse's office — StudentMsg handles both directions privately and instantly.
Your student's school inbox is already flooded — district announcements, teacher emails, class notifications, Canvas alerts. If you email them directly, your message competes with all of that. When they need you right now — sick in class, ride fell through, something they'd never tell the office — they need their message to land as a text on your phone, not an email buried in your work inbox. StudentMsg converts their school email reply into an instant text alert. The email is just the delivery channel. What lands on your phone is a text.
Pricing
No contracts. Cancel anytime. Both plans work on every Austin ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Austin follows the same Texas phone ban. StudentMsg works for all of them.
Set up StudentMsg in under 5 minutes. Your student checks their school email — that's it.
Start for $8/month — No Contract