Protect Your K-12 Schools with Integrated Security Solutions

When parents send their kids to school, they expect them to receive a quality education. More so, they entrust teachers and staff with the ultimate responsibility: keeping their children safe. It’s this burden—ensuring the safety and well-being of every child—that keeps K-12 educators up at night.

Schools come in all shapes and sizes, but whether it’s a tiny, rural elementary school or a massive urban high school, all administrators need to ensure school grounds are secure and emergencies can be responded to rapidly. You need a security system that can adapt to the specific needs of K-12 schools, from a company that understands your unique requirements. Alarm.com for Business’ unified commercial security systems help you do all this and more so you can spend less time worrying about safety and more time giving children the education they deserve.

Safety First

When it comes to safety, the priority is maintaining a dependable front office access control system to monitor who’s coming and going from your school. Assign faculty individual badges, key fobs, or user codes that can be used to access specific buildings and get notified if someone enters a restricted area. User codes can be assigned in bulk and set to expire at specific preset days or times.

With an around-the-clock business surveillance system from Alarm.com for Business, you can continuously monitor school grounds, so you always know what’s going on across your campus. Thanks to the intuitive Alarm.com app and web dashboard, monitoring is possible from anywhere at any time, even over weekends and holidays when staff and students are away.

While many security systems only help you out after something has happened, you can use Alarm.com to set virtual tripwires that notify you right away when anyone enters or exits school property. Get alerts if a student sneaks out a back door or a visitor tries to come in without reporting to the office and take immediate action.

But it doesn’t end there. With our perimeter detection feature, you can apply boundaries and tripwires to sports fields or student parking lots, so you can rest assured
knowing exactly who is in and around your school at all times.

Responding to Emergencies

No matter how much you plan or how careful you are, emergencies will happen. While you always hope for the best, you need to plan for the worst and ensure swift and effective responses to emergencies.

By combining access control, intrusion detection, and video surveillance, the unified Alarm.com platform gives you the tools you need to meet any emergency head-on. Receive immediate alerts if an unidentified person has entered campus and view live footage to quickly tell the difference between false alarms and real emergencies. Increased awareness of what’s going on in your school lets you alert the authorities of any emergency in real-time, and Smart Locks lets you quickly lock or unlock smart lock-enabled doors in the building from your phone. Alarm.com gives you the power to take control of the situation as soon as you realize something is wrong.

Know What's Going on in Your Building

According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the average K-12 school building is 44 years old. With older buildings comes a raft of maintenance issues, all of which can snowball into much costlier or more dangerous problems if not caught in time. Even schools that are fortunate enough to have newer buildings are not immune from the risks of fire, flooding, or other disasters.

Leaking pipes, faulty boilers, and aging electrical systems all threaten the safety of students and the integrity of your building. And while your students and staff may leave for summer vacation or winter break, maintenance issues have an unfortunate habit of striking when there’s no one around to witness them. Using the integrated Alarm.com platform to detect smoke, fire, carbon monoxide, water leaks, and flooding, you can take action to protect students, staff, and school property. Receive notifications in real time from anywhere with the Alarm.com app, so if a minor maintenance issue pops up over spring break, you don’t return to school to find a major disaster.

An All-In-One Solution

Educating our children is one of the most important missions you can have, but before you even begin to teach, you have to make sure that every student has a safe, healthy environment in which to learn. To accomplish this, you need a security system that meets the unique needs of the K-12 environment, with all its parts working together seamlessly. This all-in-one approach means the information you need to keep your students safe is always accessible, creating a system that’s truly more than the sum of its parts.

Combining video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, and temperature monitoring with Alarm.com for Business makes for a security system that’s more than the sum of its parts. Keep track of it all on a single, intuitive interface with the Enterprise Dashboard—and do it remotely from anywhere, anytime with the easy-to-use app.