
Empowering K-12 Schools With Smart Security Solutions
HID technology protects K-12 schools, enhances operational efficiency and creates safer learning environments for students and staff.
Streamline Operations & Enhance Safety in Your School
Ensure the safety of students, staff and visitors while optimizing the security and flow of your school’s most critical areas. HID technology allows K-12 schools to:
- Simplify physical and digital access for staff and students
- Streamline visitor management
- Improve emergency preparedness and response
- Increase operational efficiency
Our solutions help provide comprehensive protection against both internal and external threats, enhancing school safety, improving incident response and creating a safer, more secure learning environment for all.
Enhance Learning With a Safer School Environment

Control Access
Manage access permissions across all buildings, facilities and classrooms in real time. HID access control allows schools to:
- Provision and deprovision access rights as needed
- Integrate access control into other security systems and software
- Prevent unauthorized individuals from entering school grounds
- Control entry to specific zones based on time, date and authorization level

Visually Identify
Ensure proper identification for everyone on campus with systems that:

Respond to Incidents
Enable rapid, coordinated response during emergency situations by:
- Seeing real-time locations of people in specific areas
- Controlling doors with automated lockdowns and lockouts
- Granting first responders rapid access to doors during a lockdown
- Restricting access to sensitive areas
- Enabling mustering to account for everyone in the event of an emergency
- Gaining insights and expediting response time
Boost Operational Efficiency & Reduce Administrative Burden

Streamline Workflows
Optimize administrative processes and daily operations with technology that lets you:
- Quickly and easily provision and deprovision credentials and access rights
- Enhance administrative and staff workflows
- Simplify the user experience with one credential for multiple applications
- Automate routine security and administrative tasks
- Integrate security systems with existing school management platforms
- Support secure remote access to school systems

Reduce Costs
Maximize ROI with easy-to-buy, easy-to-install security solutions that:
- Enable centrally-managed card issuance
- Provision credentials faster and more easily
- Readily modernize; no need to rip and replace
- Reduce lost card and credential costs
- Lower operational expenses through automation

Future-Ready Flexibility
Implement solutions that evolve with your school's changing requirements and feature:
- Integration with multiple security solutions
- Access to hundreds of integrators and technology partners
- High-quality products backed by warranties and support
- Scalability for future needs with future-proof solutions, including mobile
- Easy extension to new buildings or renovated spaces
- Adaptability to changing security protocols and requirements
Our K-12 Security Solutions
HID offers a diverse portfolio of access and authentication solutions designed to help K-12 schools operate more efficiently and securely.

- Access Control Systems Safe and convenient access control systems
- Cloud-Based ID Card Printing Efficient, cost-effective cloud-based card printing
- Desktop Readers Contact, contactless & multi-interface secure card readers
- Embedded Modules Quickly and easily turn devices into secure endpoints
- ID Badge and Card Printing Direct-to-card and high-definition card printing solutions
- Mobile Access Solutions Use mobile to access networks, spaces and services
We’ve significantly improved the management of vehicle traffic by reducing the time it takes parents to access the parking lot. We’ve been able to improve evacuation and emergency processes for our students and staff. And, best of all, we have an automated system to manage the entry and exit times of our employees to know where everyone is located on our large campus.
— Security Office, American School of Guatemala