A safe school addresses the emotional and physical safety of students and staff by using a comprehensive approach that engages the school's staff, students, families and community. Marion works to establish a safe environment that is inclusive and supportive and builds positive relationships among students and staff. The district implements strategies to prevent emotional harm and strives to build resiliency, including teaching students social and emotional skills, supporting students' behavioral health needs, addressing bullying of various forms (physical, verbal, social & cyber), and working to reduce risky behaviors such as drug and alcohol use. Marion uses threat assessments to determine the severity of threats and works to proactively resolve conflict.

The district's physical environments play a critical role in keeping students safe. Marion works to ensure the physical safety of its students, staff, and visitors through strategic facility design, maintenance, effective security policies and procedures, emergency planning and preparedness efforts. A healthy and safe physical school environment promotes learning by ensuring the health and safety of students and staff.

The physical school environment encompasses the district's school building and their contents, the land on which the schools are located, and the area surrounding it. A healthy school environment addresses our buildings' physical conditions during normal operation, as well as during renovations. We strive to protect occupants from physical threats, and biological and chemical agents in the air, water or soil, as well as those that may be brought into school or on the school grounds.