Case Study: Kiona‑Benton City School District achieves rapid, scalable, high‑quality campus security with Verkada

How a School District Brought Their Security System Up to Speed with Advanced Technology

Kiona‑Benton City School District, serving 1,400 students across two campuses in Benton City, WA, faced an outdated, partially inoperative surveillance setup (the elementary/middle school system hadn’t worked in 3+ years), limited coverage from a centralized NVR, poor image quality, and a two‑person IT team stretched thin. After a security incident, Director of IT David Rodriguez selected Verkada’s cloud‑based camera system for its ease of installation and intuitive software.

Verkada’s cloud‑managed cameras were rolled out across both schools (15 minutes per camera and reported as 5x faster to deploy), with the district adding more than 30 cameras in a single summer using PoE installs. The solution delivered higher‑resolution footage, flexible camera placement, compressed cloud storage that doesn’t burden daytime bandwidth, live streaming and easy evidence sharing with authorities—improving situational awareness, speeding incident response, simplifying maintenance, and giving the district greater peace of mind.

Kiona-Benton City School District

David Rodriguez

Director of Information Technology