Starting after spring break, there will be a new way to keep track of students in hallways during the day.

Principal Sandra Squire will be introducing a new e-pass in order to better pilot hallway activity. 

So how will they work?

“Students will ask for a pass via the computer and teachers will approve them via computer,” Squire said. “Adults in the hallway will have an app and can check to see who should be where.”

The new electronic passes are serving as an alternative to paper passes, but will still be utilized similarly.

“Written passes are archaic and it is hard to read where a student is going, what time, and who sent them,” Squire said.

It is hopeful that with electronic passes, there will be less room for students to miss classes. The overall goal of the new pass system is “to keep students learning since our classes are so short, and to make sure our halls are safe and secure.” 

Paper passes have presented a few issues throughout recent school years. Teachers have found that it’s hard to keep track of students and manage hallway activity. With the introduction of the e-pass system, administration is hoping to improve this.

“We can track more efficiently: how many students are in the hallway during different periods, if students are out multiple times a day or for long periods of time, if the same students are out the same time each day and much more,” Squire said. “It will help us have more secure hallways because we will know exactly who should be in the hallways each period and why.”

Squire is hopeful that these new passes will be more efficient as well as “just a smoother way of running school.” 

In addition, administrators will be able to send electronic passes rather than sending students to deliver paper passes. Adults in the building will have access to the resources they need in order to keep the passes efficient.

“The clinic, student services and main office will use this as well so we can have a student send a pass electronically instead of with a runner,” Squire said. “It will be more streamlined.”

Squire hopes that this will keep the school running more efficiently, and more students will get to where they need to be on time. We will see these changes put into place following spring break.