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Core Platform
What’s new at ParentSquare
Features in Bloom
Every new feature grows from the communities we serve. Your feedback shapes what we build—so every update strengthens engagement, improves operations, and creates better experiences for districts, schools, and families.
ParentSquare Intelligence
Turn school updates into conversations that grow
AI Conversation Starters automatically generate relevant questions from post content, helping parents turn school updates into meaningful at-home discussions. Staff can review, edit, or customize these questions before sending.
Attendance Plus
Give families a way to report absences—and watch plans spring forward
Proactive absence reporting makes it easy to for families to report absences through one clear place, right on ParentSquare. Attendance staff can review submissions, approve or decline in one click, and maintain a complete record of student absences, all without leaving the platform.
Attendance Plus
Let your attendance outreach flourish from one place
Task Lists in Attendance Plus give attendance teams a centralized place to view assigned students, contact families, complete interventions, and monitor progress in real time. Teams can reduce manual tracking and spend less time gathering information across spreadsheets and systems.
Explore what else has launched recently
Fresh features. Smarter workflows. Better connections for school communities. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite recent launches. For the full release list and how to get started, visit the Help Center →
Communications / ParentSquare Intelligence
Help every family better understand every message
AI-powered translations better preserve tone, context, and meaning so communications feel more natural, accurate, and easier for every family to understand.
Learn about ParentSquare Intelligence →
StudentSquare
Keep families connected in cell phone–restricted schools
StudentSquare enables parents to message students directly, with school-level controls that support your district’s cell phone policies.
Learn about StudentSquare →
Attendance / ParentSquare Intelligence
Write clearer, more empathetic attendance messages faster
Attendance teams can use AI rewrite for attendance messages—so communication to families is clear, professional, and effective.
Learn about Attendance Plus →
Websites
Bring key content to life with a visual navigation
Add images, titles, and captions to Smart Sites navigation menus to better guide visitors, reinforce branding, and showcase key content across your website.
Communications / ParentSquare Intelligence
Measure and improve your family reach
With Contactability™ Benchmark, see how your district’s reach compares to similar-sized districts and get actionable guidance on what it takes to achieve 100% contactability.
Virtual Phone
Enable secure, recorded staff-to-student calling
Staff can now call high school students directly from Virtual Phone while keeping every interaction identified, recorded, and fully within district systems.
Learn about Virtual Phone →
