Case Study: Saddle Mountain Unified School District achieves real-time emergency communications and improved school safety with CrisisGo

How a TechnologyOriented District Easily Embraced CrisisGo’s Safety Solutions

Saddle Mountain Unified School District, a technology-driven PreK–12 district in Tonopah, Arizona serving about 3,000 students across five schools, lacked digital emergency communications in 2016 — emergency plans were kept in three-ring binders and staff working outdoors could not be reached. Superintendent Paul Tighe identified the need for a device-accessible safety platform and adopted CrisisGo’s alerting and messaging solution.

CrisisGo implemented its alerting, messaging and digital campus-mapping tools (aligned with the Standard Response Protocol), gave every employee authority to send mass alerts, and integrated local law enforcement into the notification stream. The result was faster, district-wide communication, audit-ready automatic logging of drills and incidents, improved coordination with partner agencies, positive staff and auditor feedback, and a measurable increase in operational readiness and peace of mind for Saddle Mountain USD.

Saddle Mountain Unified School District

Paul Tighe

Superintendent