School Safety

PVSchools uses mass messaging to contact families with information about school related items as well as emergency situations. This messaging includes email, phone calls, and SMS text messaging. If you are a parent or guardian, you will receive high-priority and emergency messages.

Make sure your mobile number is on file with your school via your student's emergency card. Student emergency cards are typically filled out online; however, upon request, the cards can be sent home at the beginning of each school year. If you have phone numbers (either home or mobile) that change during the year, reach out to your school and provide updated phone number information.

An SMS text message is sent as a notification to parents and guardians. To receive these notifications for important announcements, save (855) 221-8673 in your phone’s contacts. 

Please note: The district’s mass messaging system, does not charge any text message fees; however, wireless carriers typically do. Please contact your wireless carrier for more information about text messaging fees.

To help prepare our students for any emergencies and enhance their overall safety, we conduct the following practices: 

Fire Drills

DSES participates in monthly fire drills. Students are taught the importance of listening to directions during these drills, as alternate evacuation exits may be needed, in case fire is blocking the primary escape route. These drills are always on a different day and different time in an effort to test numerous schedules throughout the school day.

Lockdowns

In addition, Desert Shadows Elementary also participates in practice lockdowns each semester. These range in scenario, i.e. stranger inside building, stranger on campus, or police situation in the neighborhood.

All of these practices have helped our school be prepared for any situation and be handled in a calm and orderly manner, in return making a very safe environment for our students.