Once construction to the offices at Door 4 are complete, the new offices at Door 21 will not act as attendance offices. When the 2020 – 2021 school year begins, students will have to go to the attendance office at Door 4. The offices at Door 21 will act as a permanent Student Resource Officer (SRO) office and place where staff can allow students into the building through that door. Schaller said those offices are needed now that Door 21 is a permanent entrance and Student Resource Officer DJ Schoeff said that entrance was in need of an SRO office because it is one of the less- monitored building entrance. The new 

offices at Door 21 have been built because it is now a permanent entrance into the building.“That’s never been an official entrance for us. We used to lock that door and you had to walk around. But we didn’t think that was good so we started letting kids come in there,” Schaller said. “But that wasn’t good.

So we just have that makeshift desk there with somebody sitting there and we got buzzer added to let people in. But now that’ll be an entrance very similar to our main entrances, like Doors 2, 4 and 13 where you can actually come in and be scanned in.”

Shoeff said that an SRO office would be beneficial to the overall safety of the school.

“Door 21 was an area that we saw was kind of a weakness, if you will, where a presence would be beneficial. (The) natatorium’s there, we have lots of visitors that come in there, and we wanted to make sure we put an office down there for two reasons,” Schoeff said. “Number one, the presence. We’ll have an officer down there as often as we can. And two, the deterrence of walking up and seeing a police officer’s office is right there. It’ll be very beneficial and we plan on putting a nice little sticker on the outside to identify that it’s a police office just as a deterrence.”