Automated School Notifications for Families

School-to Home communications are critical to educational success. DJUSD seeks to provide families with important information, in a timely and efficient manner. Whether school notifications are sent via email, phone call, text or social media, they are powerful tools for promoting and sustaining a strong school community. 

By providing emergency contact data through the Annual Registration process, families are giving consent to receive automated school notifications to telephone land lines and mobile phone numbers. Please make sure your contact information is up-to-date in the Parent Portal for each student. This is the information that our communications system uses to email, call and text families.  

Families who wish to receive emergency text alerts must do so through an opt-in process using a mobile phone number, on file with their school office. 

Below are three categories of communications along with the modes of broadcast that DJUSD intends to use for each message type.

Emergency
Emergency conditions involving potential health and safety communications will be sent via email, automated phone call and occasionally text message to your landline and mobile phones (if a mobile number is provided with your student’s emergency contact information.)

Text alerts will only be sent to families who have opted into the SchoolMessenger emergency text alert service. In DJUSD, texting is not typically used for non-urgent messaging.
Student Absence Notification
Notification of a student’s absence that has not been cleared by calling the school’s absence line will be sent by recorded voice message to your home landline telephone and/or to your mobile phone, if authorized.
Official, Non-Urgent School Information
To keep our school community informed about important news and events, principals and district officials will choose to send important messaging email and automated phone call.