SchoolMessenger, the leading parental notification company in the U.S., is celebrating its tenth year anniversary. A large number of school districts, public schools, colleges, universities, private schools and other educational facilities in the U.S. depend on SchoolMessenger’s solutions to connect and effectively communicate with millions of parents, students and staff every day.

According to Kent Lowry, co-founder and chief executive officer of SchoolMessenger, their customers have been relying on SchoolMessenger for ten years to deliver the messages they use to communicate with parents, students and staff. SchoolMessenger is proud of this trust and works hard to earn and maintain it. SchoolMessenger helps to keep schools safe, reduce the dropout rate, increase parent involvement or save schools money. Lowry attributes the company's growth, even during tough economic times to its commitment to putting the customer first.

The nationally distributed, best-in-class hosted notification service from SchoolMessenger is being used by many of the largest school systems in the U.S. and Canada. School systems that use the service include New York City Department of Education, Dallas Independent School District, Orange County Public Schools, Mobile County Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, Minneapolis Public Schools, Omaha Public Schools and Jefferson County Public Schools. The service has a unique certified integration with Cisco (News - Alert) products and interfaces to more than 130 data management packages in use by schools.

A longstanding customer, Trevor Baker, System Support Specialist at Halifax Regional School Board (Nova Scotia) says that SchoolMessenger made a brilliant move in partnering with Cisco years ago, as that relationship streamlined their integration process and also produced significant cost advantages. Even though Halifax Regional School Board is located far away from the closest SchoolMessenger office, the service has always provided prompt and responsive attention to their needs.

SchoolMessenger is trusted by thousands of organizations for delivering emergency alert services through voice, SMS text and email messaging. It also keeps parents informed about their child’s progress which enables a parent to know when coaching or other support is needed. A unique feature of SchoolMessenger is that it lets parents provide a "reason for absence" response when they get a call about their student's absence. This feature helps to reduce the percentage of unexcused absences effectively.