LinkIt! vs SchoolStatus Attend

LinkIt! is a web-based K–12 platform for assessment management, data analytics and intervention support. Educators can create assessments from scratch, use item banks, choose varied item types or digitize existing assessment content. Its banks contain over 100,000 items aligned to state standards in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies. Testing can be online across devices, operating systems and browsers, or on paper with plain-paper bubble sheets. Data Warehousing combines instructional data in dashboards and reports that can be broken down by school, teacher, class, student, demographics, question, standard and subscore. Intervention Manager supports MTSS/RTI, gifted learners, multilingual learners, 504 plans, behavior and SEL, with tools for plans, goals, progress monitoring, meetings and communication. Navigator Analytics offers custom reports, trend and predictive analytics, subgroup analysis and consultation. The company serves K–12 schools, districts, networks, state and regional agencies, content providers and teachers. LinkIt says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is permissioned and audited, and hosting data centers are SOC 2 compliant. The platform is accessed through a web browser, subject to minimum technology requirements. Prices are not displayed; prospective customers are invited to contact sales.

SchoolStatus Attend is a web-based attendance management solution for K–12 districts focused on chronic absenteeism. It tracks attendance by time, period, or full day and displays year-over-year absence changes. Automated interventions begin when absences accumulate, while Early Warning Insights identifies students likely to become chronically absent after 60 school days. Districts can send letters, emails, two-way messages in more than 130 languages, and conference invitations. Daily Attendance Notifications text families when a student is marked absent and collect replies in a centralized dashboard. Attend imports student records through multiple student information system providers, including Infinite Campus and PowerSchool, to determine intervention eligibility. SchoolStatus describes a 4–6 week onboarding process for SIS integration, thresholds, and outreach workflows. Districts receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager for attendance reviews, recommendations, and team training. SchoolStatus says it serves districts in all 50 states. The service participates in SOC 2 Type II auditing and reporting, is certified by 1EdTech and iKeepSafe, and states FERPA and COPPA compliance. Pricing is available on request.