SMS Messaging for Schools, Daycare & K-12

Accelerate engagement, expand your community, and intensify personal relationships with key audience members in your educational network, from staff, parents, and students, with conversational SMS for schools.

of millennials would rather lose calling capability than texting
of students say texts motivate them to complete tasks promptly
of text messages are responded to vs. 6% of emails

Feature-Rich Text Messaging
for Schools

Grow Contact List

Bulk upload opted-in contacts and grow your list with QR codes, Keywords, and forms.

Bulk SMS Messaging

Conveniently and effectively reach your entire audience – all at once, instantly.

Text Forwarding

Never miss a message—automatically forward texts to your phone, email, or dashboard.

SMS Appointment Reminders

Reduce no-shows by as much as 90%.

Drip Campaign Templates

Save time with pre-written school drip campaign message templates.

Design Tools & MMS Picture Texts

Design tools and a library of MMS picture text templates to help your messaging to stand out.

It’s Easy to Start, Send & Scale with
EZ Texting

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Text Messaging for Schools

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Keep Students & Parents Safe & Informed

  • SMS school alerts are the fastest, most efficient way to notify the community.
  • 80% of text messages are read within 10 minutes, making it ideal for time-sensitive alerts.
  • Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, making text messaging a highly effective way to reach your community.

Boost School Participation

  • Boost event participation with text invitations, automated reminders, and logistical updates.
  • Using Keywords on signage can help drive parents to join volunteer notification lists.
  • Use drip campaigns to welcome new students and parents and share information about your school.
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Keep Faculty & Staff on the Same Page

  • Keep faculty and staff in the loop on important news, dates, and deadlines with bulk texting.
  • Use Keywords to segment your groups for more targeted messages.
  • Use Two-Way SMS texting to receive and respond to staff inquiries anytime, anywhere.
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TCPA Compliance: Above & Beyond

We make TCPA compliance easy with features including double opt-in security, automated opt-out
functionality, and SafeSTOP, to add required opt-out messaging with one simple click.
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Our Customers Love Us. The Feeling’s Mutual.

2023 Badges

Customer Service is Great
“The customer service was exceptional and EZ Texting went above and beyond in helping me feel capable in sending out “nudge” texts to our students.”
Network Coordinator  |  Non-profit Organization Management Company
Does the job we ask it to do.
“We are a private K12 school. When there is a need to be closed that affects only our campus (eg loss of electricity and heat) — and to inform families of such a problem, we use EZ Texting.”
Professional in Information Technology  |  Education Management Company
Student engagement at its finest
“In a technology busy world texts are read more quickly than email, especially with you. It makes the option relevant to this day and age.”
Discipleship Director  |  First Baptist Church of Glenarden

Powerful SMS Marketing Features

Dedicated Short Codes

Boost engagement and brand awareness with a memorable 5-6 digit textable number

Contact Management

Easily upload existing contacts then personalize, group, and segment for fast targeting

MMS Picture Messaging

Drive engagement with your own dynamic image or one of millions of free Shutterstock images

Group Texting

Message all your contacts at once, or segment into groups for quick
targeting

Two-Way Texting

Conversational texting allows for easy one-to-one connections to your customers

List Growth Tools

EZ Texting offers multiple ways to grow your opt-in list, including Keywords, QR codes, and digital sign-up

School Integrations

Easy-to-use integrations with popular applications help you integrate mass texting for schools with your current administrative and admissions workflows to be more organized, efficient, and productive.

  • SchoolTracs
  • Edutive
  • Skool
  • QuickSchools.com
  • Knorish
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Frequently Asked Questions

 

SMS school texting is a software platform or web-based application that allows you to send mass text messages from a textable business number. Instead of a group text where recipients can view each other’s numbers, creating privacy issues or hundreds of single texts from a personal mobile, you can use a bulk SMS service like EZ Texting to send private, personalized text messages to thousands of contacts at once. Use SMS for school admissions, event reminders, parent-teacher communication, sports team coordination, emergency alerts, and more.

 

 

Keep your school’s communication with students and parents professional and private by using a software platform through which you can send alerts, notifications, and reminders via SMS for schools for PTAs, extracurricular clubs, athletics directors, etc. A service like EZ Texting allows you to send bulk SMS and direct, two-way text messages to help support efficient, streamlined communication with students and parents. Simply sign up for a free trial, upload contacts that have agreed to receive text messaging, and compose your first bulk SMS for schools.

 

The first step for setting up mass text messaging is to sign up with a texting platform for schools. One of the continually highest-rated mass text message services is EZ Texting! We have an incredible customer service track record and have guided tens of thousands of businesses through the setup process. Check out some of our Getting Started resources and utilize our ever-expanding knowledge base with helpful answers to all your questions.

 

Since the engagement rates on text messaging are significantly higher than email, we know that texting continues to be a highly effective way to communicate at scale. Additionally, most people would like the option to receive timely notifications like alerts through text messages. In fact, 9 out of 10 consumers prefer to communicate with businesses via SMS. This data indicates that SMS text messaging for schools is one of the best ways for educators, sports coaches, and administrators to communicate with parents and, for high schools and secondary education institutions, with students. Whether a public elementary within a sizable metropolitan system or an elite private academy, principals and headteachers around the U.S. are adopting bulk SMS for schools to instantly send emergency alerts, admissions updates, parent-faculty coordination, and more.