Add or correct a school
RecReq lists 611 schools across 14 states, and it grows because people who actually needed a contact told us what was missing or wrong. There's no account to create and nothing to pay — just tell us, and a person will check it.
A school isn't listed
Coverage is strongest in Arizona and thins out elsewhere. If you searched and came up empty, that's the single most useful signal we get about what to add next — a request from someone who actually needs the contact beats any list we could buy.
A contact is wrong, or it bounced
Start from the school's own page — its correction link is prefilled with that school's URL, so there's no doubt about which record you mean. This directory holds similarly-named schools that a name alone can't tell apart, and a correction filed against the wrong one makes things worse rather than better.
Find the school, then use its correction link
Can't find the school's page? Use the correction form directly and paste in whatever identifies the school — its full name, city and state.
What happens to a submission
- A person reads it. Every submission, without exception. Nothing you send publishes automatically, and that includes submissions from a school's own staff.
- We check it against a source. Usually the school's own website or district page. A value we can't confirm doesn't go in — a directory of plausible-looking wrong fax numbers is worse than no directory.
- It lands as a reviewed change. Each record's edits are kept in version control, so who changed what and when is recoverable, and anything can be reverted.
What we publish, and what we don't
This is worth reading before you send a list, because it's the most common reason a genuinely useful spreadsheet gets declined.
- Records and transcript contacts only
- A school page answers one question: where does a records or transcript request go? Contacts are shown in the order to try them, and that ordering is the product.
- Not counselors, teachers, front-office staff or admissions
- These are deliberately excluded, even when we're offered them. A counselor listed among records contacts sends a transcript request to the wrong desk — the one failure this directory cannot afford, because it fails silently and the requester finds out weeks later.
- Role addresses over named individuals
registrar@orrecords@beats a named person's inbox: it survives staff changes, it doesn't republish an employee's name, and it's far less likely to go stale.- No accounts, and no private data
- RecReq is a public directory, not an application. There are no logins, nothing is kept per-person, and there's no private contact list to maintain here.
What to include
The more of this you have, the faster it gets checked — but send what you've got rather than waiting until it's complete. A school name and a city is already useful.
- The school's full name, city and state
- The full official name, not an abbreviation. This directory contains several schools whose names differ by a word.
- The records contact, and how you'd reach it
- An email address or a fax number, and which one the office actually prefers if you know.
- Where you got it
- A link to the page you found it on is the single most valuable thing in a submission. A value with no source can't be re-checked later, which means it can't be trusted later either.
Requesting records at scale
If you send records requests regularly, Auto Pilot automates the loop — generated request PDFs, email and fax delivery, follow-ups, and a secure upload page for the records coming back. It's a waitlist, not a live service yet.