Texas HB 1698 requires Lake Travis 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.
Lake Travis ISD, serving the booming Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Hudson Bend communities west of Austin, implemented the HB 1698 phone ban districtwide. Lake Travis's fast-growth neighborhoods are home to many technology industry workers who found the communication gap especially frustrating.
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.
Lake Travis ISD's communities sit at the intersection of Austin's tech wealth and Hill Country lifestyle. Parents here expect products that work simply and immediately. StudentMsg delivers exactly that.
"Both my husband and I work at tech companies in Austin. Our default for everything is 'there's an app for that.' When the Lake Travis phone ban happened, we spent two weeks looking for the right solution. StudentMsg was the one that actually worked — and it's elegant."— Lake Travis ISD parent, Bee Cave
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 Lake Travis ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Lake Travis 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 Lake Travis 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 Lake Travis ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Lakeway 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