School Safety and Security

Emergency Preparedness
Over the course of the school year, students will participate in safety drills. In addition to a monthly fire drill, students will experience the following drills as part of the MCPS Emergency Preparedness plan:

• Lockdown

• Shelter

• Severe Weather

• Drop, Cover and Hold

• Evacuation

• Reverse Evacuation

The following links provide additional information on the drills that are practiced and monitored throughout the school-year.  

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/emergency/preparedness/ 

Visitors’ Management System (VMS)

The visitors’ Management System is an automated system intended to enhance MCPS security measures to ensure a safe and secure learning and working environment at schools.

Upon entering the school, ​ALL ​visitors report to the office where their driver’s licenses or state issued identification card will be scanned. For those without identification, their information will be entered manually. The system checks the individual’s information against the state sex offender registry and will also produce a nametag. This name tag is to be worn at all times while on the school campus. Once the visitors’ information is entered into the system, a badge will be issued.