Texas HB 1698 requires Houston 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.
Houston ISD — the largest district in Texas — adopted a comprehensive phone-free policy aligned with HB 1698. All 276 schools now require phones to be stored and silent from the start of the school day through final dismissal.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Harris County.
Across Houston's sprawling 194,000-student district, parents in communities from The Heights to Sugar Land struggle to maintain contact. HB 1698 closed the easy channel — StudentMsg reopens it.
"Houston ISD is enormous. My daughter's school alone has over 2,500 kids. The front office is impossible to get through. She had her school tablet in her backpack and I had no idea I could use it to reach her until I found StudentMsg."— HISD parent, Bellaire area
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 Houston ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Houston 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