School Safety

Williamsville Central School District uses an automated mass notification system to inform parents, staff and students of a school emergency, school closure, or other important announcement affecting our schools. This eAlert system has several components:

• Email
• Text messages
• Automated phone calls
• District app push-alert

eAlerts Informational Page

The 2020 School Security Improvement Project was a $43.2 million capital project for security renovations throughout the District.  The security improvement recommendations were made following security reviews that began in 2018 and ended in the Spring of 2019.  These security reviews were completed by the Amherst Police Department and a national security expert.

School Security Improvement Project Informational Page

In the fall of 2023, the District began using the Raptor Visitor Management System to identify visitors in our District and school buildings.  In order to enter a building, parents/guardians and visitors are required to provide a government issued ID, such as a driver’s license.  In doing so, the Raptor system will:

• Keep potential threats out by instantly screening each visitor’s government-issued ID card against the sex offender registries in all 50 states as well as an unlimited number of custom databases
• Sync with the Student Information System (SIS) to ensure you release students to approved guardians
• Allow us to review the visitor’s information side-by-side with the offender’s information immediately while notifications are sent to administrative and security personnel
• Let the school community know visitors are approved by requiring visitors to wear a badge that shows their role type, name, destination, date and time of entry, and photo

In the spring of 2025, the District partnered with the Sandy Hook Promise and Say Something-Anonymous Reporting System.

This program is age-appropriate and evidence-informed. To date, the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System and other SHP prevention programs have stopped multiple school incidents (i.e. shootings), suicides, and gun threats.  SS-ARS and SHP have also helped reduced bullying and cyberbullying, and provided intervention for self-harm, drug use, and more.

Each school has a landing page where students, parents, and/or community members can submit tips.

Say Something-Anonymous Reporting System Information Page

In the spring of 2025, the Williamsville Central School District partnered with ZeroEyes, a security firm that uses artificial intelligence and human analysis to detect weapons (i.e. guns) and threats that are identified on school campuses.