wow thank you soo much. you don't know how long I've been trying to do this!

Thanks for the additional information! I think that will really help. So for the third part when you say I need to "create a statement only for those devices", what exactly does that mean? I found a place to create a badge for the push notification. Is that the same thing?

like how can I send push notifications only to specific users going to a certain school?

okay awesome thanks! could you please elaborate on the second question if you have time? i'm not really sure how to do that at all.. sorry. i'd really appreciate it if you could give me some basic instructions on how to accomplish that function