Student Safety Resources
The New Kent County Public Schools district prioritizes student safety through our efforts of building security, student counseling, partnership with the New Kent County Sheriff's Office, and safety protocols. Some of our safety features include:
- audio-visual door access control systems and security cameras
- behavior intervention plans and student counseling supports
- emergency crisis codes
- evacuation and lockdown drills
- Ident-A-Kid visitor management technologies
- implementation of Standard Response Protocol (see below)
- New Kent Sheriff's Office School Resource Officers (SROs)
- NKCPS emergency response plans
- NKCPS School Security Officers (SSOs)
- NKSO police canines for random narcotics and firearms sweeps
- panic button systems
- portable radio systems
- school-based emergency response/safety teams
- school safety audits and school inspections
- school threat assessment teams
- Silence Hurts online forms for reporting incidents
- weapons detection systems
Standard Response Protocol:
