Texas HB 1698 requires Conroe 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.
Conroe ISD, serving rapidly growing Montgomery County communities including The Woodlands, Spring, and Conroe, implemented the HB 1698 phone ban districtwide. The district's spread-out geography means many students travel significant distances between home and school.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Montgomery County.
Conroe ISD has grown explosively in the last decade as families move to Montgomery County. These are largely suburban families who depend on quick digital communication — and the phone ban disrupted that entirely.
"We live in The Woodlands but our kids go to Conroe ISD schools that are 20 minutes away. If there's a schedule change, I'm going to find out when I arrive and it's too late. StudentMsg changed that — my daughter emails from her school iPad and I get a text at my desk."— Conroe ISD parent, The Woodlands
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 Conroe ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Conroe 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 Conroe 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 Conroe ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Conroe 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