The Federal Way school district is expanding the use of the automated notification system to make morning attendance calls for all students, at all schools, as part of the district’s Safe Arrival Program. With the automated system, parents will be contacted more quickly than is currently possible with a manual system.

Within an hour of the school start time, a morning attendance call will be placed to the primary phone number for each parent/guardian listed in the student information system.

Families of students who have arrived late to school and those whose absences have not been verified by a parent or guardian will receive a morning attendance call.

If parents have notified their child’s school, the automated system will not contact them. There may be times when a parent has contacted the office regarding an absence, but the information isn’t entered into the system prior to the call being made. If you have already contacted the school regarding the absence, district officials said to disregard the call.

In the evening, all parents and guardians of students in secondary schools who were late or absent will continue to receive a call informing them of their child’s absence by period. These calls are scheduled between 5 and 8 p.m.