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Security is crucial for schools, and our experts help schools of all sizes enhance their safety. We assess risks, recommend the best security systems for schools, and ensure visitor controls, physical security, and safeguarding work seamlessly together.
Clearway provides school security systems that integrate access controls, CCTV, and AI analytics to prevent unauthorised access, monitor premises, and detect suspicious activities. School security systems are integrated solutions designed to protect educational institutions by controlling access, monitoring premises, and detecting suspicious activities using technologies such as access controls, CCTV, and AI analytics.


School security is fundamental, and concerns about vulnerable boundaries and undetected intruders must be carefully balanced with the need to ensure staff, pupils and authorised visitors can enter and leave freely, without feeling restricted.
That can include whole-premises security controls and automated entrance gates and doors to defend schools of every size from unauthorised intruders, through to advanced ANPR that offers augmented car parking controls, enabling staff and authorised delivery vehicles to come and go freely without permitting an unknown vehicle to bypass electronic gates and bollards.
Our solutions allow smooth staff access, manage busy drop-off and pick-up times, and include fast AI-driven communication systems to detect and resolve security incidents quickly.
Key Benefits of School Security Systems




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The most relevant security system inclusions will always depend on the location, nature, size and complexity of a school premise or campus. Our independent security specialists are always on hand to conduct risk assessments and offer customised recommendations on which options are best suited to your risk profile.
Access controls maximise the efficiency of gated entrances, doors, bollards and car parking areas, ensuring any individual approaching is cross-checked against a database and only permitted entry if verified via facial recognition, biometrics or a security pass.
Schools must ensure visitors are welcomed, including parents, extracurricular club providers, caterers, and delivery drivers. Visitor management ensures each arrival is approved and authenticated, and their arrival and departure times are logged.
A modern school CCTV system uses intelligent video analytics to compare known patterns and movements with anything unusual, such as tracking, monitoring, and raising alarms when an object, person, vehicle, or other incident requires prompt investigation.
School intruder alarms safeguard against attempts to break into premises, outbuildings, storage bays, and portable classrooms. They alert security teams to any effort to open a door or window or, with perimeter intrusion controls, to covert attempts to scale a fence or gate.
Particularly relevant for large school and college campuses and events like fairs, sports days, and celebration evenings, crowd control can flag congestion points, actively monitor movement flows, and act as a security surveillance system during busy periods and events.
Future-ready AI school security systems use deep learning and bespoke programming to predict unwanted behaviours, identify unusual or suspicious activity, and pre-empt disturbances, from tracing repeat loiterers to picking up on movement against the normal flow of traffic.
Designed to meet stringent fire safety regulations, our expert installations use advanced detection systems to provide early warnings and rapid response capabilities. Whether upgrading existing alarms or installing a new system, we tailor solutions to suit each school’s specific needs, minimising disruption while maximising safety. With ongoing maintenance and 24/7 monitoring, Clearway helps schools safeguard students, staff, and property from fire risks.










Primary and Secondary Schools
Primary and Secondary Schools
Putting in place site-wide protections to defend vulnerable pupils, protect staff and manage access controls.

Colleges and Universities
Colleges and Universities
Ensuring larger and further educational establishments have appropriate security management across multi-building layouts and open campuses.

Student Accommodation
Student Accommodation
Advising on security measures to keep residential student housing blocks and communal areas safe and properly protected.

Private Education Providers
Private Education Providers
Installing defences to protect high-value equipment and ensure parents and teachers can navigate school sites with trust and confidence.

Multi-Academy Trusts
Multi-Academy Trusts
Offering standardised protection across all academy sites, in line with risk appraisals and academy security policies.

Special Educational Needs (SEN) Schools
Special Educational Needs (SEN) Schools
Delivering custom security for schools with heightened safeguarding or secure access requirements.

Local Authority Schools
Local Authority Schools
Advising on the best security precautions to keep local authority schools and buildings compliant and well-managed.
Key Features

Protect Schools, Playing Fields and Grounds With Comprehensive Coverage:
Customised CCTV security can oversee outdoor spaces of any size, including car parks, playing fields, sports grounds and woodlands. It uses AI-enabled intelligence to pinpoint movements or activities that raise suspicion.
Supervise all Entry Attempts, Arrivals and Unusual Activity:
Crowd monitoring provides the ultimate in footfall tracing and behavioural analytics. It enhances site management and health and safety controls while detecting any unusual activity.
Ensure Controls Are User-Friendly and Require No Technical Expertise:
Remote access and simplified user interfaces ensure your systems are efficient and straightforward to operate.
Enhance Response Times and Proactivity With AI-Enabled Surveillance:
We can recommend the best in cutting-edge AI-backed school security to elevate responsiveness, prevention, and student safety.
Comply With Every Applicable Rule, Regulation and Policy:
Clearway can advise on GDPR adherence, DfE regulations, the applications of Martyn’s Law, and data protection to ensure schools are audit-ready and fully compliant.
How it works?

1. Perimeter Protection and Access Control:
Every school must be certain that nobody can enter the building, grounds, or car parks without permission. This ensures that criminal thefts, overnight or school-holiday break-ins, and deliberate, targeted intrusions are immediately identified.
2. Proactive Identification of Potential Risk Factors:
From detecting knives brought into school grounds to spotting threatening postures and behaviours that impact the safety of reception staff, AI-augmented CCTV can detect a wide range of emergency scenarios that require a fast security response.
3. Live Movement and Object Detection:
Deep learning allows AI-led CCTV to detect any unwanted, suspicious, or concerning behaviour, from dropped and concealed items to climbing fences or walls, vaping on school grounds, or attempts to abscond from school.
4. Targeted Security for Vulnerable Groups:
Many schools have pupils for whom safety is paramount. School security can proactively safeguard looked-after and vulnerable children. It can be programmed to notify the police if a known person who is not permitted to contact the student is identified as being close to the school grounds.
Introducing School Security Systems to Your Site

1. Identifying Risks and Concerns:
Step one is to conduct a thorough risk assessment to spot gaps in security, open access points, areas likely to cause bottlenecks, access points for cars and people, and the existing safeguards in place.
2. Reviewing Data Protection and DfE Requirements:
Our security advisers will analyse solutions alongside safeguarding rules and privacy regulations, ensuring systems are designed for the school site while providing ongoing data protection and footage management.
3. Introducing Unobtrusive Controls:
Systems are designed to reassure teachers, governors, trustees and staff without being obvious, creating additional tasks or checks, or making staff and visitors feel observed when navigating the school site.
4. Implementing Automated 24/7 Monitoring:
Once installed, systems are continually monitored with options like AI-enabled tracking to pre-empt potential aggression or the presence of suspicious items and around-the-clock responsiveness from our highly trained response teams.


Managing security at a school is inherently complex. In many cases, headteachers, estate managers and safety leads working within local authorities benefit from confidential, expert advice to ensure they install the right security systems and upgrade outdated or analogue CCTV systems.
Your duties involve or extend to site-wide safety, and you need a reliable, always-on way to ensure that any potential safety threat, attempted intrusion, or trespass is physically prevented and that immediate liaison with security teams and the police is activated.
Your school has already experienced break-ins resulting in theft of equipment and materials, property damage, arson, and graffiti, and you need a quick way to implement security controls across all entry points and throughout your perimeters.
You either have outdated security systems or no systems in place, and need to evidence that the school has acted to keep pace with safeguarding policies, safety regulations, and Martyn’s Law – particularly for larger sites or those hosting frequent events.
You know there is the possibility of varied security threats, from aggression and confrontations to loitering, attempted entry by individuals banned from having contact with children or pupils bringing harmful weapons or substances to school. You need a way to identify these issues before they occur or escalate.
You have car parking facilities for staff that need to remain accessible, while stopping unknown vehicles from entering the school site and keeping pupils and parents safe when moving around the school at the start and end of the day.
You’re not confident that, in the event of an emergency or a large-scale event such as sports days or school fairs, your security policies are up to scratch, and you want assurance that you have the assets in place to identify risks, manage them, and allow senior leadership to liaise directly.
You want a fully functional school security system that provides complete reassurance, with intruder alarms, visitor management logs, access controls, and CCTV surveillance, all managed from a single dashboard or central control point.
You need to ensure pupils are always secure and safe, and to have systems that non-technical staff can operate, without installing overbearing security measures or creating restrictions on normal movement around the campus.
With improvements in efficiency, dependability, response speeds, and incident management, our AI-driven education security ensures that threat detection and pre-emptive analytics are embedded into your approach.



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July 2025
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July 2025
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July 2025
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Clearway’s security advisers implement full-coverage systems that protect school staff, parents, guardians, and students. Our systems are used in schools ranging from smaller local primary schools to larger colleges and campuses with vast grounds, multiple buildings, and large faculties and student bodies.
Clearway is dedicated to leading advanced AI- and deep learning-enabled security that can mitigate threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and augment the functionality of school security systems by a significant margin. This is achieved through intelligent tracking, data comparison, and full monitoring across a school site.
We focus on ensuring school security systems work fast, protect perimeters, and differentiate between normal activities and those outside the norm, pre-empting potential intrusion threats or intentions to circumvent access controls before they occur.
Combining security controls, such as access gates, alarms, and cameras, ensures schools have considered safety across their sites, while integrated emergency communication systems and fire alarms ensure the school is equipped to handle any issue.
Immediate notifications enable the police to respond quickly to live incidents or security concerns, with monitoring systems supported by 24/7/365 response teams that log, verify, investigate, and communicate throughout until the situation is resolved.

Clearway supports diverse sectors requiring rapid security deployment. Our clients include construction companies, property developers, event organisers, and facility managers who need reliable surveillance solutions. We’re trusted by:


Our UK Sales Director, Kelvin Danton, explains why responding quickly to threats is so important.
School security systems are somewhat unique due to the many decision-making factors that safety leads, estate managers and headteachers need to consider – from data protection and footage management to DfE expectations, safeguarding requirements, and security that is effective and reassuring while blending into the school environment.
Integrated, properly managed and fully monitored systems provide a solution, offering highly reliable coverage, easy-to-use functionality and cross-system connectivity with fire alarms and communications devices to ensure schools are protected.


Got a question about our school security? Read our frequently asked questions.
AI-enabled CCTV surveillance and alarm verification systems monitor patterns, movements and behaviours continuously to identify when anything appears suspicious, unusual or outside the norm.
This means that early signs of tension or aggression, returning vehicles, unknown individuals, or items being dropped or hidden are immediately flagged and investigated to determine whether swift action is needed to de-escalate a potential issue, remove an attempted intruder, or even evacuate in a serious emergency.
Of course, data protection is incredibly important for schools, and managers need to ensure that confidential data, information about children, and the identities of looked-after children with increased safeguarding concerns are highly controlled.
We can advise on fully compliant systems with advanced management and access protocols that ensure all data is safely stored, deleted, anonymised or redacted as necessary.
Yes, they certainly can. We often work with academies which operate several sites and need consistent levels of security protection across each.
Martyn’s Law was introduced in 2025 and applies to schools with 200+ people on their sites at any time. They must, for example, have procedures in place that staff and students know and can follow if they notice anything amiss, as well as clear emergency plans to activate during critical incidents.
Absolutely, and we know that having one unified system to manage fire safety, site movement, access permissions, and perimeter security provides a simpler way for schools to manage site-wide safety.


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