Montgomery County Public School Installation

“a safe and secure educational environment”

Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) is one of the largest and considered to be the most avant garde school district in the United States. The district covers 497 square miles and has 22,229 employees-11,000 of which are instructors. Maxxess security systems are currently used in 80 of the 200 MCPS schools.

MCPS 144,064 students (1,268 buses transport 96,000 students) and these students are from more than 164 countries speaking 184 languages.

Maxxess has helped MCPS promote a safe and secure educational environment through their ongoing security initiatives. Maxxess provides MCPS with access control systems but most importantly we manage their alarm systems.

MCPS security initiatives include the following:

• Closed-circuit television in high schools and middle schools enhance the monitoring capability of school staff and help to promote the safety of all students.

• A Maxxess developed Incident Reporting System provides for consistent and timely reporting of serious incidents in schools.

• A system wide emergency/crisis response plan which conforms to the guidelines established in the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

• Individualized emergency/crisis plans at all schools and facilities to include parent/child reunification procedures.

• Security personnel in all middle and high schools.

• Emergency preparedness and fire evacuation drills.

• Established emergency communication procedures at all schools.

• Specialized training for school administrators and on-site emergency teams to manage an emergency or crisis situation.

• Security assessments of schools.

In addition they have :

• A Memorandum of Understanding with, the Montgomery County Police Department, and the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office which promotes consistent reporting of serious incidents to the police.

• A “School Safety and Security at a Glance” safety report which is published annually. This report provides system wide and individual school data on serious incidents and suspensions. It also provides greater transparency and accountability for incidents that have an impact on school safety and results in greater improvement in identifying and remedying issues related to school safety.

In addition, MCPS has addressed how staff should handle bullying as well as child abuse and neglect. Suicide-risk guidelines have been developed and disseminated to school-based staff.

Maxxess is proud to be working with MCPS and their state of the art programs to promote a safe and secure educational environment