PowerSchool Attendance Support

A Smarter Approach to Attendance

PowerSchool Attendance Support reduces absenteeism through unified workflows; multilingual family communication; and research-backed, equity-focused interventions.

Proactively Improving Attendance with Measurable Impact

Unify Systems to Address Root Causes

Identify patterns early and act with equitable interventions that prioritize family communication, including multilingual engagement, with real-time analytics and automatic tiered supports.

Ensure Accurate Funding

Improve attendance rates to secure and increase attendance-based funding for your district.

Streamline Processes with One Platform

Automate workflows, unify data, and integrate SIS-synced analytics and communication to improve reliability and ensure every student receives support.

Give Educators More Time

Save time reducing workloads while giving teachers clarity, confidence, and the ability to support students more effectively.

Drive Measurable Results

Use research-backed interventions, automated nudges, and family engagement to improve outcomes for students at risk of falling behind.

Derry Area Schools

Learn how Attendance Support automates Derry Area Schools’ (PA) two-way messaging and outreach, saving staff time, improving parent communication, and reducing district truancy hearings.

From Attendance Data to Real Student Engagement

• Tracking
• Tiering
• Notifications
• Awareness
• Student Outreach

Gain Clear Attendance Trend Visibility

Track attendance trends by schools in the district, school-wide daily and period-level rates, or class-level by day, month, and student.

43 States served

Tier Attendance Tracking & Intervention

Easily sort students by attendance tier, set up automated notifications based on tier movement, and send personalized communications to tiered groups.

2.2 million Students supported by Attendance Support

Automate Family Nudge Notifications

Automatically generate and send easy-to-read visual attendance data analysis to a targeted group at a custom frequency by text and email to improve attendance and reduce costs.

82 million + Messages sent in 2025

Improve Attendance Awareness in Real Time

Send attendance alerts and reports—including absent and late message notifications—in real time or as a daily digest of trends, chronic absence tiers, and percentages.

Improve Safe Student Outreach

Communicate directly with students in a safe, secure manner by allowing administrative oversight of teacher–student communications through downloadable reports.

What Educators Are Saying

“With (Attendance Support), we have been able to really communicate to our families and our students that we care about them. And I think that’s really the first step in getting them to come to school.”

Nicole Bond

Director of Attendance and Enrollment, Hayward County Schools (TN)

Resources to Move Your School Forward

[**The Impact of Chronic Absenteeism on K–12 Stakeholders**
Learn how chronic absenteeism is a systemic challenge impacting educators, families, funding, and long-term student success.](/content/resource/impact-of-chronic-absenteeism/index.html)

[**Attendance Support ROI Calculator**
See how reducing absenteeism boosts student engagement and helps secure critical state funding.](/content/resource/attendance-funding-calculator/index.html)

[**K–12 Attendance Intervention Toolkit**
Discover insights into chronic absenteeism causes and steps to re-engage students to improve attendance.](/content/resource/k-12-attendance-intervention-toolkit/index.html)

Attendance Support Works Better with PowerSchool SIS

PowerSchool Attendance Support connects with PowerSchool SIS to unify attendance data and family communication, enabling data sharing and workflow automation while ensuring data consistency.

Help Students Stay on Track

Reduce chronic absenteeism, strengthen family engagement, and protect attendance-based funding with a unified, proactive intervention system.