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Private Schools Need High-quality School Safety

Private schools are known for their desire to meet the needs of the young people in their care, treating everyone as individuals and providing high-quality and personalized education. Today, these goals are met with significant safety challenges from student wellbeing and burned-out staff to budget constraints and safety technology overload. Raptor helps reduce the administrative burden with easy-to-use, yet robust solutions aligned to your specific needs.

Learn 4 Considerations for Private School Student Safety and Wellbeing.

What Our Customers Say

Raptor Essentials for Private Schools

  • Raptor School Safety software ties together the critical aspects of safety throughout your campus, from prevention through recovery in a cohesive, easy-to-use software suite
  • The annual cost per school is typically less than one overhead projector in a classroom
  • Provides peace of mind to your local school community
  • Eligible under almost all local, state, and federal safety funding grants
  • Easy to deploy, with experienced, professional implementation teams from Raptor 
  • Designed to work under duress, Raptor Alert is a silent panic alert system that works on the devices your schools use every day
  • Quickly initiate a response to a school- or district-wide emergency from any hard-wired, cellular, or wireless device
  • The same app is used for critical emergencies and everyday incidents, so staff learns one system to summon help
  • Load key documents and policies for easy access by your staff
  • Integrated with RapidSOS for sharing precise location data and emergency details with 911 and dispatch operators
  • Keep track of all your drills and provide feedback to stakeholders on performance
  • Schedule drills in advance and receive reminders to help with compliance requirements
  • Automatic reporting to show your compliance with district requirements
  • Directly integrated with your Student Information System so staff can quickly and easily account for students based on class rosters
  • Staff can indicate the status and location of themselves, any student, other staff, and visitors
  • Real-time dashboards during an emergency show the status and location of students and staff (safe, injured, missing, or absent) to prioritize your resources and speed communications
  • Be ready to reunite families following any crisis and provide quick resolution for anxious parents
  • Minimizing trauma is directly correlated to safe, efficient reunification. Raptor Reunification software includes a patented reunification workflow aligned with and officially licensed by The “I Love U Guys” Foundation
  • Confidently reunify students with approved guardians
  • Raptor’s patented StudentSafe technology brings together the systems that help schools recognize, document, support and manage the wellbeing of individual students
  • Identifying and cataloging low-level concerns in StudentSafe provides a mechanism for schools to capture, track, and address early warning signs and potential issues in students’ well-being, helping facilitate early intervention
  • The intuitive and robust platform includes the ability to capture low-level concerns, conduct behavioral threat assessments and suicide risk assessments and manage such cases, ensuring positive student outcomes
  • School-wide view of visitors and contractors who enter and exit your buildings
  • Instantly screen against the national sex offender database as well as your own custom databases
  • Syncs directly with your student information system to ensure proper chain of custody
  • A visible sign of security for your school community
  • Raptor Connect enables native, bi-directional integration with your district’s digital security systems and peripherals at no additional cost
  • Raptor Connect gives users the power to initiate multiple emergency response mechanisms from one point
  • The Raptor Connect ecosystem of partners includes gun detection, mass communication, audio/visual systems and much more
  • Improve operational efficiency to move cars and buses through quicker and alleviate congestion on nearby roads​
  • Be prepared to greet big donors or VIPs before they enter school buildings by receiving alerts when they drive onto campus with Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)
  • Manage a more efficient and safer carline dismissal by automatically identifying dismissal carline drivers by their license plates, RFID tags or GPS
  • Eliminate dismissal chaos with Parent Change Management where dismissal changes, late arrivals, carpool adjustments or after-school activities can be communicated
  • Accurate attendance records are important for safety, funding and accountability
  • Per-period attendance gives teachers more instructional time and less administrative burden when students check in to class using a QR code, barcode, or RFID tag
  • Schedule and roster data are pulled from your SIS to ensure accuracy, and attendance data can automatically be sent to your SIS for academic reporting
  • Identify patterns of students who may be abusing the privilege with Hall Pass Management
  • Customize and automate your volunteer application based on state requirements and your own policies
  • Reduce the approval process from weeks to hours
  • Online portal allows schools to send out information on upcoming activities with sign-up forms for volunteers
  • Track all your volunteer hours for reporting, matching funding, or recognizing volunteer hours
  • Empower and encourage your volunteers with self-serve access to their own information and up-to-date details on upcoming events

Resources to Help Improve the Safety of Private Schools

3 Ways Private Schools Can Improve Student Wellbeing

Private schools, like all educational institutions, face a range of challenges when it comes to addressing student mental health needs—but there are also challenges unique to private schools.  

4 Considerations for Private School Student Safety

Parents prioritize security alongside academics as school safety evolves. Campus access control, efficient emergency responses, and student wellbeing enhance protection for students and staff.

School Emergency Response Best Practices

Past school tragedies are heartbreaking reminders of how time equals life, and that we cannot afford even one second of delayed or inaccurate correspondence with dispatchers and responders.

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