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Student Safety & Attendance

Every student accounted for, on one record.

PCR Educator is a student information system with student safety built in: attendance, student location, leave and permissions, dismissal, emergency roll call, health, and wellbeing run inside the platform that already handles admissions, academics, and billing. Faculty take roll on a phone, families approve leave from theirs, and the front office, dorm parents, and business office see the same student at the same moment. Day, boarding, and international schools run on the same platform.

One record for safety and academics Attendance, leave, health, billing: one student
Live student location Updated by roll call, kiosk, leave, and dismissal
500+ institutions on the platform 35+ years in education
Built into the SIS

Safety data and the student record are the same data.

A roll call, a kiosk check-in, an approved leave, and a dismissal release all write to the student record the registrar, the nurse, and the business office already use. There is no sync job between a safety app and the SIS, so what a dorm parent sees at 9 p.m. is what attendance shows at 8 a.m.

No integration to maintain
Every routine updates location

Location comes from what staff already do.

Period attendance, kiosk sign-in and sign-out, approved leave, health office visits, bus sign-ups, and dismissal releases each move a student's status. Staff run their day, and the location record keeps itself current, without GPS or wearables.

Location from routine, not tracking
Ready for the hard moments

Emergency roll call from any phone.

When a drill or a real event starts, every staff member accounts for the students in front of them from a phone, and leadership watches accounted and unaccounted counts resolve in real time, with staff and signed-in visitors on the same roll.

One roll: students, staff, visitors
Safety Attendance, Location & Wellbeing

Seven workflows. One student.

Each workflow below has a page of its own, and every one of them writes to the same student record, so the registrar, the dean, the nurse, and the business office read one version of the day.

  • 01Check-in and check-out kiosk with username, student ID, and pincode sign-in
  • 02Period and daily attendance with automatic reconciliation when a student leaves and returns
  • 03Leave requests, sign-outs, and permissions approved by parents and staff
  • 04Emergency roll call with live counts, and broadcast to families by phone, text, and email
  • 05Dismissal, authorized pickups, carline, bus routes, and aftercare billing
  • 06Boarding and residential life: dorms, houses, evening check-in, weekend leave
  • 07Health office, wellbeing check-ins, behavior notes, and discipline records
01

Day schools

Morning arrival, mid-day sign-outs, dismissal, and aftercare on one kiosk and one household record, with period attendance reconciled as students come and go.

Arrival to aftercare
02

Boarding schools

Dorm and house rosters, evening check-in, weekend leave, and travel on the record the dean of students already uses for discipline, health, and academics.

Residential life included
03

International schools

Families in any time zone approve leave and see their child's status in their own language, on the same portal that carries the bill in their currency.

32 countries served at St. Luke's
04

Camps and summer programs

Summer rosters, check-in, and billing run on the same platform as the school year, so a family receives one statement and the school keeps one record.

School year and summer, one record

Start with the workflow your school needs first.

CHECK-IN / CHECK-OUT

Kiosk and period attendance

One kiosk for arrivals, sign-outs, health office visits, and admissions events, writing to period attendance and the family ledger.

  • Username, student ID, or pincode
  • Leaving Early, Absent, Late reconciled
  • Aftercare fee schedule to invoice
BOARDING

Boarding and residential life

Dorms, rooms, head of house, evening check-in, weekend leave, and boarding fees on the student record.

  • Who is in, out, on leave tonight
  • Leave approved from a phone
  • Room assignments roll to next year
LEAVE & PERMISSIONS

Student leave and permissions

Parents and students request leave, early dismissal, and sign-outs; approvals follow your policy; attendance updates itself.

  • Requests from the portal or a phone
  • Approval routing by policy
  • Verified absences on the teacher's roll
EMERGENCIES

Emergency roll call

Every staff phone reports into one roll that starts from live attendance, with families reached by phone, text, and email.

  • Accounted and missing, live
  • Leave and health office pre-placed
  • Drill record kept
DISMISSAL

Dismissal and carline

Authorized pickups on the household, bus routes and daily overrides, kiosk release by pincode, and aftercare that bills itself.

  • Pincode for every approved adult
  • Bus, car, walk, aftercare plans
  • Time-stamped release record
WELLBEING

Wellbeing and behavior

Check-ins, advisor notes, behavior and discipline, health visits, and attendance patterns on one timeline, role-secured.

  • Check-ins in the student portal
  • Flags to advisor or counselor
  • Patterns surfaced by report

What independent schools ask about student safety on
PCR Educator.

What is a school safety platform, and how is PCR Educator different from a standalone one?

A school safety platform records where students are during the day (attendance, check-in, leave, dismissal) and lets staff account for everyone during an emergency. Standalone platforms such as Orah, REACH Boarding, and Ruvna run beside the school's student information system and sync to it. PCR Educator is the student information system, so attendance, leave, roll call, dismissal, health, and boarding are already on the student record the school runs on, and there is no sync to configure, pay for, or wait on.

Does PCR Educator work for boarding schools as well as day schools?

Yes. Dorm buildings, rooms, and head-of-house assignments, day and boarding status, evening check-in by house, weekend and overnight leave with parent and staff approval, health center visits, and boarding fees on the family account are all part of the platform. St. Luke's School runs 880 boarding and day students from 32 countries on PCR Educator, with weekend leave fully digital. Day schools use the same platform for arrival, dismissal, and aftercare.

How does PCR Educator know where a student is without GPS?

From the routines the school already runs. A teacher's period attendance, a kiosk sign-out with a reason code, an approved leave with dates, a health office visit, a bus sign-up, and a dismissal release each update the student's status. Because these are ordinary daily tasks in the same system, the location record stays current without any tracking hardware, and the emergency roll starts from that record rather than from a blank list.

Can a school adopt the safety workflows without replacing everything at once?

Schools adopt the platform in stages and most begin with the workflow that matters most that term: check-in and attendance, or leave and boarding, or dismissal. Because every workflow writes to the same student record, each one added later inherits the students, households, emergency contacts, and authorized pickups already in place. The safety workflows are part of the PCR Educator platform rather than a separate per-student safety subscription.

Which student information systems does PCR Educator integrate with for attendance?

PCR Educator is the student information system, so attendance, leave, and emergency data are already in it and no integration is needed. Schools that move from a separate safety app retire the sync between that app and their previous SIS, and schools that keep other tools (payroll, learning management, physical security hardware) connect them to one platform rather than several.

How quickly can a school be live?

Schools adopting the full platform typically go live in 60 days. St. Luke's School completed a 16-week implementation that covered international admissions, residential life, multi-currency financial aid, and family portals, timed to launch with the new admissions cycle. A school adding attendance and check-in to an existing PCR Educator installation is live in far less, because the students, households, and staff are already there.

Every student,
accounted for.

A specialist walks through attendance, leave, emergency roll call, dismissal, and boarding on live data, using your bell schedule and your policies.

  • 01Roll call, kiosk, and leave on one student record
  • 02Emergency roll call from a phone, with live counts
  • 03Dismissal, carline, bus, and aftercare billing
  • 04Boarding and residential life, if your school needs it

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