Considering the number of machines and since the vast majority of the students move to public school after 8th grade or one of the larger private private high schools. I just had a mild disagreement with a staff member. Come to find out the school has no where near the numbers I was originally told. They have a total enrollment of less than 100. I made it very clear that from this point on when I ask for numbers I want real numbers not potential ones. Long story. But now I am getting wary of the situation in whole. I can not give accurate recommendations based on inaccurate data.

Total number of student accessible machines is aprox 30. Running anything from windows 2k up. These are donated machines that have been kitbashed together. No linux or apple OS to worry about at this point.

All the student machines are located in one "computer lab". That will make things a little easier. With the small number of students/computers the tech teacher should be able to handle admin with a relatively small dose of training. I know her personally, she can handle the job if I get her pointed in the right direction. Hiring in of additional staffing is not an option with this place. They almost had to lay some teachers off at the beginning of this term due to funding issues. All of the money for this project is coming out of a series of grants specifically for this purpose.

I forgot to mention that I have already performed a physical pen test of the facility. I went from the parking lot to my contacts class room during passing period with the halls full of students and teachers via the front door in less than 4 minutes with no one challenging me as to whether or not I belonged there. Never even got a second glance. And at the time I had only been on premises after hours to help the tech teacher out with a small networking issue and was never in contact with any other staff.

You should have seen the look on the principles face when I told him about it. Maybe I shouldn't have said this but he about swallowed his tongue when I said "if I was a kidnapper I would have had my pick of the litter today". Thats when all this started. I should have never made it more than 10 feet from the front door. I should have never gotten in the front door.

The computer part of the "lock down" wont be hard to do at all. Especially considering the numbers involved and the ages of the users. But they want to bundle the physical/computer security into one nice neat little package to make it easier to get grant money.