CivicBell

About CivicBell

CivicBell provides an online, document-free method to efficiently verify student residency for enrollment and re-enrollment. Our solution drastically reduces the workload for enrollment staff and registrars while providing a more accurate means of countering residency fraud and technical illiteracy. 

Purpose-built for School Districts – Our GIS backbone incorporates all district boundaries down to census block detail, including custom district agreements

Provide document-free verifications – No need for parents/guardians to upload pdfs/jpegs of mortgages, leases, etc and no need for the school to store them, either

SIS agnostic – We simply supplement your current SIS enrollment process

Counter Fraud – Creating fake PDFs is easy nowadays and it’s hard to recognize them. We counter this by not requiring any PDFs at all

Counter Misuse of the McKinney-Vento Act – Defending those that need the protection of this act means keeping others from abusing it – we help you identify abuse of the act

Significantly Reduce Staff Workload – Eliminate 90+% of work involved with residency verification (and subsequent troubleshooting calls, follow-ups, etc) 

Tools Provided:

Single-Verification Tool – verify a single residence at a time when the need arises (staff account access)

Mass CSV Verification Tool – upload as large of a file as necessary (even your entire student population) to verify all current/returning students at once. Significantly reduces time spent on annual re-enrollments (staff account access)

Address Lookup – Helps to identify potential McKinney-Vento abuse (staff account access)

Public Enrollment Tool – supplement your enrollment portal with a tool that allows parents/guardians to enter their own info and be verified in less than 10 seconds (public URL access)