Texas
Texas audits the exterior doors. The classroom doors are up to you.
Since Uvalde, Texas has written the most detailed exterior‑door rules in the country and sends unannounced auditors to test them. The rules stop at the building envelope. What happens at the forty classroom doors inside is a district decision, and it is the decision the Robb Elementary investigation was about.
The rules
What Texas requires
19 TAC §103.1215, School Safety Requirements
Effective September 1, 2026 (it replaces §61.1031). Exterior doors must be closed, latched and locked unless actively monitored or inside a secured area; exterior doors are inspected weekly during school hours; doors are numbered inside and out; a door‑designation document goes to responders; and from August 1, 2026 districts certify in Sentinel that security reviews were done. Classrooms with exterior entry doors need a way to see who is at the door. The rule does not require interior classroom doors to be locked.
Intruder detection audits
The Texas School Safety Center runs unannounced audits that try to get into the building. Findings go into Sentinel and must be corrected within 60 days; campuses with repeat findings go onto TEA's enhanced monitoring plan (April 2026). In the first audit cycle, about a quarter of audited schools needed corrective action, and most findings were exterior doors and secondary entrances.
TEA school safety updates · First‑cycle findings (secondary)
Silent panic alert
SB 838 (2023) requires every classroom to have technology for immediate contact with district or school emergency services and with emergency services agencies, in place for the 2025‑26 school year. ClassLock takes a lockdown trigger from that system and holds every door.
Funding: the School Safety Allotment
Texas Education Code §48.115, raised by HB 2 (2025) to $20 per student in average daily attendance plus $33,540 per campus, adjusted to $21.10 per ADA from 2025‑26. Hardening and door upgrades are eligible uses. For a 1,500‑student high school that is roughly $65,000 a year before any other source: about the price of a 25‑door ClassLock wing, every year.
Who you deal with
Texas School Safety Center (Texas State University) for audits and standards; TEA Office of School Safety and Security for Sentinel and funding.
Where ClassLock fits
The layer the audit does not test
What Robb Elementary showed
The Texas House committee found teachers propped exterior doors with rocks, left interior doors unlocked for convenience and used magnets on latches; the lock on room 111 was known to be faulty and never repaired. All 21 people killed were in rooms 111 and 112.
What the rules fixed
Exterior doors, weekly checks, audits with consequences. Texas now finds exterior doors locked most of the time, and the audits name the campuses that slip.
What ClassLock adds
Every classroom door locked by default, opening for the students scheduled in that room, with a sensor that reports propped doors by name. It is the interior equivalent of the exterior‑door rule, without asking a teacher to be the lock. Lockdown comes from the panic‑alert system you already bought under SB 838.
Texas does not require classroom doors to be locked. Florida and Utah do. See Florida and Utah.
Put the allotment on the doors.
We will scope a ten‑door pilot against your School Safety Allotment and your last audit findings.