Industries · K-12 Schools · North Texas
The standard for Texas school security is now written in law. Build to it.
Doors locked by default. Every primary entrance controlled. Silent panic alerting in every classroom. Texas requires them — and funds the work. We design, install, and service the access control, video, and entry systems that help districts meet the standard.
The pressure
What the state now expects of every campus.
Since 2023, Texas has moved school security from local judgment to state standard. The Texas Education Agency’s school safety rules require exterior doors kept closed, latched, and locked by default, with weekly door inspections districts must certify — and every primary entrance must either be a secure vestibule or provide equivalent controlled entry: visual verification of visitors, a physical barrier, and a check-in point. Under Senate Bill 838 — Texas’s Alyssa’s Law — every classroom must have silent panic alert technology, mandatory since the 2025-26 school year.
The state funds the work, too. The Legislature roughly doubled the School Safety Allotment in 2025 — to $33,540 per campus plus $20 per student each year — and many districts still hold SAFE grant funds they must spend by April 30, 2027.
Challenge → System
Requirements on the left. What meets them on the right.
Exterior doors locked and latched by default, provable on a weekly audit
Access control with electrified locks and door monitoring — doors that lock themselves, and a record that shows it.
Every visitor screened before entering the building
Intercom entry with a secure vestibule or equivalent controlled entrance — visitors seen, heard, and admitted deliberately by the front office.
Knowing who is on campus, building by building
Credentialed entry for staff across every campus — revoked in seconds when someone leaves the district.
Incidents reconstructed from evidence, not recollection
IP video surveillance engineered for identification at entries and coverage in corridors and commons.
Multi-campus consistency a small facilities staff can actually operate
One integrated design across the district, staff trained on-site, and a maintenance agreement that keeps every campus working.
The partner question
Superintendents change. Your security partner shouldn’t.
District security fails most often between projects — systems installed by a vendor nobody can reach, documentation that left with the last bond cycle. We’re built for the other model: one accountable firm your facilities director keeps, across administrations, with every campus under one design and one number to call.
We work with both public districts and private schools across North Texas.
How engagements runQuestions we hear
Asked by districts and school boards.
Can School Safety Allotment funds pay for access control and cameras?
The allotment exists to fund campus safety and security — and as of the 2025-26 school year it pays $33,540 per campus plus $20 per student annually, roughly double the prior amounts. Physical security systems are squarely in its category; districts should confirm eligible uses with TEA for their specific plan, and we scope designs so the paperwork maps cleanly to the funding. Districts holding SAFE grant awards can also spend those through April 30, 2027.
Do the door standards apply to portable classrooms?
Portables are explicitly included in parts of the standard — door numbering, for instance, covers all instructional facilities “including portables.” Confirm the current application of each element with TEA for your campus inventory — and design the system so portables aren’t an afterthought either way.
We already have cameras and some card readers. Do we start over?
Almost never. The assessment documents what carries forward — cabling, mounts, hardware, sometimes whole subsystems — and the design builds around it. Districts pay for the gap, not a teardown.
Can the work happen while school is in session?
It’s planned that way from the design phase — sequencing, after-hours work, and summer windows are part of the implementation plan, not an improvisation.
Who runs the system after you leave?
Your people — front office staff on the vestibule procedure, facilities on credentials and reports. On-site training is part of every implementation, and a maintenance agreement stands behind the hardware.
Walk your campus with us.
A no-obligation assessment documents where your campuses stand against the state’s standards — doors, vestibules, coverage — and what we’d do about it, in language a school board can read.