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Web filtering, student safety monitoring and device management for K-12 schools
As of 31 August 2026, Securly's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A K-12 filtering and student wellbeing suite sold as separate modules, with human analysts reviewing flagged self-harm and violence alerts around the clock. Softwr lists it under Education. Securly is made by Securly, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, Chrome OS.
Overview
What Securly does
Securly sells a set of school technology products around one Chrome and Windows agent: Filter for CIPA-compliant web filtering on and off the school network, Aware for scanning student email, documents and search activity for self-harm, violence and bullying signals, On-Call for a staffed team that reviews the most serious alerts overnight and escalates to named district contacts, Classroom for teacher screen monitoring, MDM for Apple device management and Pass for digital hall passes. Home is a free parent app that reports on a child's school device activity. The module that decides most purchases is On-Call. Automated safety alerting produces a volume of flags that a district technology team cannot triage at 2am, and the liability question a superintendent asks is who reads the alert when nobody is at work. Securly answers that with a staffed service rather than a dashboard, and it is the reason districts pay for the suite instead of relying on Google Workspace's own admin controls. It is also the reason total cost is much higher than the filter line item suggests. Buyers are US and UK K-12 districts and multi-academy trusts, usually purchasing through a co-operative or framework rather than direct. Pricing is per student per year and stacks by module, so a district that adds Aware, On-Call and Pass to Filter can pay several times the headline filtering rate. Contracts are annual, commonly signed for three years to hold the rate.
What people use it for
- A district that must show CIPA compliance for take-home Chromebooks used on home broadband, where network-level filtering does nothing
- A district whose safeguarding policy requires that a human being reads a self-harm alert within minutes at any hour, including school holidays
- A one-to-one iPad programme needing Apple device enrolment, filtering and classroom control from a single agent rather than three
- A district under pressure from parents who want visibility of what their child does on the school device at home, without the school having to field each request by hand
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- Pricing stacks by module and only Filter has rates that surface publicly, so the quoted total for Filter plus Aware plus On-Call is routinely several times the number a district budgeted from the filtering line alone.
- The safety scanning generates false positives at volume, including song lyrics, creative writing and health-class assignments, and each one consumes counsellor or administrator time that the vendor does not pay for.
- Alerting on student writing is a surveillance decision with real community consequences, and districts that deploy it without an explicit board policy and parent notification have faced local objections after the fact.
- Coverage is strongest on managed Chromebooks; personal devices, non-Chrome browsers and encrypted apps outside the agent leave gaps that the compliance story quietly depends on nobody testing.
- Per-student pricing is charged on enrolment rather than on devices, so a district that issues devices to only some year groups still pays for every student on the roll.
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Pricing
What Securly costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Filter
On request
- Web filtering on and off network
- Tiered per-student rates that fall as enrolment rises
- Published in some purchasing co-operative catalogues, not on the vendor site
Aware
On request
- Automated scanning of email, documents and search for safety risk
- Quoted per student, no public rate
On-Call
On request
- 24/7 human review and escalation of serious alerts
- Quoted per student, priced on top of Aware
Classroom, MDM and Pass
On request
- Sold as separate per-student modules
- Quoted
Capabilities
Features
Filter
CIPA-compliant filtering across Chromebooks, Windows and iOS, on and off the school network
Aware
Scans school email, Drive documents and search history for self-harm, violence and bullying language
On-Call
A staffed team that triages the most serious alerts 24/7 and escalates to district contacts
Classroom
Teacher view of student screens with tab controls and messaging during lessons
MDM
Apple device enrolment and policy management for school-owned iPads and Macs
Pass
Digital hall passes with location and duration limits, sold as a separate module
Home
Free parent-facing app showing a child's school device activity
Delegated admin
Scoped access so building administrators see only their own school's alerts
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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Does Securly publish pricing?
Not on its own site. Tiered per-student rates for Filter appear in some US purchasing co-operative catalogues, falling as enrolment rises, but Aware, On-Call, Classroom, MDM and Pass are quoted.
What is the difference between Aware and On-Call?
Aware is the automated detection that produces alerts. On-Call is the staffed service that reads the serious ones out of hours and phones your escalation contacts. Buying Aware alone leaves the triage with your own staff.
Does it filter on home internet?
Yes, filtering follows the managed device rather than the network, which is the point for take-home Chromebook programmes.
Is student data used for anything else?
Securly signs the US Student Privacy Pledge and district data processing agreements; check the specific DPA rather than the marketing page, since scanning scope and retention are negotiated terms.
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