Texas HB 1698 requires Northside 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.
Northside ISD — the largest district in San Antonio and one of the largest in the state — implemented phone-free campuses districtwide in accordance with HB 1698. All 120+ campuses serving the northwest San Antonio suburbs now operate phone-free.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Bexar County.
Northside ISD covers a huge swath of northwest San Antonio including Leon Valley, Helotes, and Lackland AFB communities. For military families especially, having reliable contact with students during the school day isn't just a convenience — it's essential.
"Northside ISD is massive. My daughter's high school has almost 2,800 students and one front desk person. Before StudentMsg, if I needed to get a message to her, it wasn't happening. Now she emails me from her school-issued iPad and I get a text in under 10 seconds."— Northside ISD parent, Leon Valley 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 Northside ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Northside 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 Northside 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 Northside ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near San Antonio 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