Pricing
Transparent, per‑door, and grant‑friendly.
ClassLock prices the way school boards budget: a one‑time hardware and installation cost per door, performed by your local contractor, plus a predictable annual license. Use the estimator to build a budget for a pilot wing or a whole campus.
What's in the per‑door number
Hardware ranges we use for planning
These are installed costs from integrator pricing for a standard one‑door opening. A local site survey and quote always comes before a purchase order.
| Door scenario | What is installed | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep existing door, inward swing | Fail‑secure electric strike, reader, door position switch, request‑to‑exit, one‑door controller, PoE | $1,200 | $2,000 | $2,800 |
| Keep existing door, outward swing with panic bar | Rim electric strike matched to the exit device, reader, sensors, controller | $1,600 | $2,550 | $3,500 |
| Replace door and frame (standard commercial) | New 20‑minute rated door and frame, Grade 1 lever, strike prep, plus the ClassLock stack above | $3,800 | $5,200 | $7,000 |
| Replace door with ballistic‑rated assembly | UL 752 Level 3 door leaf and vision lite, frame, hardware, plus the ClassLock stack | $8,000 | $12,000 | $18,000 |
| New construction, specified in bid | Incremental ClassLock hardware over a standard door package; cabling in base bid | $900 | $1,500 | $2,100 |
| New cabling to a door | Cat6 run, termination, PoE switch port share | $250 | $400 | $650 |
| Interior lockdown button | Wired to controller input | $120 | $160 | $220 |
| Door‑propped alarm | Local sounder | $120 | $170 | $220 |
| First‑responder key switch | Keyed override | $180 | $240 | $300 |
| Security film on vision lite | Per door lite, installed | $150 | $250 | $400 |
The estimator assumes a 60/40 mix of inward‑swing and outward‑swing doors for the "keep existing" scenarios. Mixed‑weighted midpoint: $2,220 per door.
Perspective
What the same money buys elsewhere
25 classroom doors, 5 years
≈ $93,000
ClassLock Campus Lockdown tier, midpoint hardware. Every one of those 25 rooms is a locked room, all day, every day, for five years.
One AI weapons‑scanner lane, 4 years
≈ $100,000+
Typical district subscriptions for a single scanner unit run in the low thousands of dollars per month, and most schools need several lanes plus staff to run them. Details and sources.
One school resource officer, 1 year
≈ $80,000 – $130,000
Salary and benefits for one officer who can be in one place at a time. ClassLock does not replace people; it makes sure the doors are locked when the officer is at the other end of the building.
How districts pay for it
Capital for the doors, operating for the license
Year‑one hardware fits the way facilities projects are funded: capital budgets, bonds, state safety allotments and federal school‑violence‑prevention grants that explicitly list locks and access control. The annual license is a small operating line, under 15% of the initial hardware spend, that fits inside a safety or facilities budget.
A phased path
- Micro‑pilot, 4 doors. Two inward, two outward. Confirms strike fit, reader placement, network paths and what your fire marshal wants to see.
- Pilot wing, 10 to 25 doors. Train staff, run two drills, produce the first door‑by‑door report.
- Campus, 50 to 120 doors. Batch similar frames to cut labor variance. Weekly review of propped‑door events.
- District. Shared dashboard, shared credentials, one policy.
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