NEW HANOVER COUNTY SCHOOLS
Wilmington, NC
Valita Quattlebaum, Chief Communications Officer

"At the high school level, we can let parents know that their student missed at least one class period, or more than one period, or the entire day. Our high schools, in particular, have benefitted from using AlertNow for absence notifications. At the elementary level, notifications assume more of a warning function: parents need to be kept informed if younger children don’t make it to school. Our elementary schools use the notifications to alert parents when kids don’t arrive. That way if something has happened at the bus stop or the child has been picked up by someone they weren’t supposed to be picked up by, we can notify the parents very early.”