Car line dismissal for schools
Pickup, without the guesswork.
A parent pulls up. Their child's name lands on the board and on their teacher's phone at the same moment. No megaphone, no walkie-talkie roll call, no child standing in the wrong place.
We can't read your rosterWorks on the screen you already haveNothing for parents to download
How it works
A bird's eye view of the car pickup line
Dismissal · A bird's eye view of the car pickup line
A diagram of a school car line at dismissal, seen from above. Cars arrive in two lanes and merge into one curb lane, where one staff member taps each car's tag number. A tagged car lights up with one colour band for each child riding in it, those children's names appear on the board at the curb, and they walk out of the school to the car together. The five steps below describe it.
Cars pull in.
In whatever order they arrive. Nothing to sort or announce — the flow starts with a tap.
One person taps the tag number.
Read off the windshield card, typed in once. That number is the only input dismissal needs.
One tag can call a whole family.
The tag knows every child who rides in that car. One entry puts each of their names on the board to head out to the curb.
First tapped, first to the curb.
The app holds the pickup order, so the curb always knows exactly which car is next.
Siblings walk out together.
Called by the same tap, they reach the car together — one stop at the curb.
The board
Four ways to show the line.
Change your mind on a Tuesday afternoon — the board updates while you watch, and the type size has a slider for whoever stands at the back of the room.
One single line
Cars in the order they arrived. The ones at the curb run large across the top; everyone else waits on deck below.
A column for each grade
Every grade gets its own colour and column. Teachers stand with their grade and watch one column, and a child lights up green when their car reaches the curb.
Curb line + grades waiting
Cars at the curb in arrival order across the top; everyone still waiting grouped by grade beneath.
A few at a time, extra large
A few cars at once in very large type, turning pages every few seconds. For far-off or narrow screens.
The teacher's phone
Built for one hand, outside, in a hurry.
Teachers either watch their grade's list, or walk a group out and tap each child as they go. Where "walked out" happens is up to your school — the gym door, the curb, wherever your hand-off is.
Teachers open a link on their own phone and sign in. Names only appear once the school's password unlocks them.
If a child isn't to be released at the car line, their card says SEE OFFICE and has no button. That pickup goes through the office.
Teo Rivera
Walked out just now
#24
UndoNora Wheeler
Walked out just now
#42
UndoSecond in line
Ben OkaforSEE OFFICE
#61
Don't send Ben out — this pickup goes through the office.
Safety
Student names are locked before they are stored.
We cannot read your roster, and we cannot reset it for you. CurbCall locks every name in your own browser before it reaches our server, and unlocking it takes one password your office shares — one that never reaches us.
Locked in your browser · unreadable on our server
One password, shared by the office
Not a personal secret. The front office, the principal and the teachers who need it all use the same one, so nobody is locked out on the Thursday the secretary is away.
A recovery sheet you print
Twenty characters on one page that explains itself to whoever finds it in a drawer in three years.
Every screen is approved in the office
A new screen shows three words. Someone in the office matches them, and only then does it show the board. A screen nobody approved shows nothing — no names, ever.
What a locked board looks like
Empty, calm, and honest. The board waits for the office to unlock it and says so in plain words, with a green dot to prove the screen is alive. It does not flash red, because nothing is wrong — and it does not show a single name until someone in the building unlocks it.
Getting started
Seven steps. Two of them today.
Upload the roster you already have as a spreadsheet. We guess the columns and show you the guesses before anything is saved. Everything after the first two steps can wait until next week.
- Your account
- Lock the roster
- Grade levels
- Student roster
- The board
- Board login
- Teacher logins
Pricing
The whole school, one price.
$995 a year, whatever your enrollment.
One school
$995per school, per yearBilled annually, on one purchase order.
Two or more
$895per school, per yearEvery school pays the lower rate, including the first.
A whole district
Let's talkone agreementEvery school in the district, on the same terms.
Every price includes every teacher and every screen, nothing to install, and setup on a call with your front office. Renews each year unless you cancel.
Book a walkthroughQuestions the office usually asks
Do parents need an app?
No. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for. Whoever is outside taps the car number as it pulls in, which is the same thing they already do on paper.
What if the internet drops in the middle of dismissal?
The board turns red and says USE BACKUP DISMISSAL in letters you can read from across the room, and the names underneath go grey so nobody mistakes an old list for a live one. You finish dismissal the way you did before CurbCall.
Does CurbCall change who's responsible for each child?
No. Your staff still hand every child to the right car, exactly as they do now. CurbCall tells them who's next and when — it doesn't take custody of anyone, and it doesn't replace the adult at the curb.
Can we use a screen we already have?
Yes. Any screen with a web browser can show the board — a TV with a stick plugged in, an old monitor, a spare laptop. You approve it once from the office.
How do siblings work?
One tag covers every child who rides in that car, so a single tap calls them all at once. Where their names appear depends on the board you choose — in grade columns, each shows under their own grade, so every teacher sees their own student.
Who can see student names?
Signed-in staff who know the roster password, and nobody else. Not a screen waiting for approval, not us, not anyone who gets a copy of the database.
What happens if we forget the roster password?
You use the recovery sheet you printed during setup. It sets a new password without re-importing anything — you only have to tell staff the new one.
See what dismissal could look like.
Twenty minutes on a call, with your own dismissal in mind. If it isn't right for your building, we'll say so.
Book a walkthrough
Tell us who you are and we'll be in touch to set a time.
Request received.
We'll be in touch to set a time. The walkthrough is twenty minutes, and if CurbCall isn't right for your building we'll say so.