Campus Safety
May 23, 2013
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students. Unlike several other schools in the Oklahoma City area, Plaza Towers had no "safe room" in which students and teachers could seek protection from a twister.
May 23, 2013
Security is now more than ever a top priority for school districts across the nation, and Hatboro-Horsham officials have been working tirelessly to improve the district’s school safety measures. While security has always played a pivotal part of the district’s structure, in the months following the Sandy Hook massacre, Hatboro-Horsham has taken several large strides to keep students safe.