Texas HB 1698 requires Round Rock 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.
Round Rock ISD implemented a comprehensive device-free policy across all campuses in response to HB 1698. The district serves Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, and surrounding Williamson County communities — all of which adopted the policy simultaneously.
Community Impact
The Texas phone ban isn't just a classroom rule — it removed the fastest communication channel between parents and students across Williamson County.
Round Rock sits in one of Texas's fastest-growing tech corridors. The families here are plugged in, busy, and accustomed to instant communication. The phone ban felt especially jarring in a community this connected.
"We're a Dell/Apple tech family in Round Rock. Both of us work in tech. We can troubleshoot anything. But 'call the front office' to reach your kid in 2026? That's what got us on StudentMsg — because there had to be a smarter solution."— Round Rock ISD parent, Brushy Creek 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 Round Rock ISD already set up on their device.
Text your StudentMsg number from any phone. It arrives instantly as an email on your student's Round Rock 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 Round Rock 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 Round Rock ISD campus.
FAQ
Nearby Districts
Every district near Round Rock 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