Schleicher County Independent School District is the technology center for our community. The SCISD currently has a LAN (Local Area Network) that includes the entire district. Our LAN was created and installed by the students of SCISD.  The students installed 90,000 feet of CAT V cable and 8600 ft of fiber optic cable that consists of over 500 drops.  The LAN contains Fortinet 10gig layer 3 switches with more than 22 subnets. SCISD also has 90 - A/C managed access points assuring uninterrupted wireless connectivity in every campus, auditorium, classroom, and gym to accommodate the wireless laptops, iPads, and a 1:1 Chromebook distribution for 2-12th grades that are on our LAN.  We are currently using an average of 500 meg of internet bandwidth with a 1 gig fiber optic pipe to Region XV.

The LAN supports two middle school computer labs, three elementary computer labs, three i7 HS labs, and a library computer lab.  SCISD has over 350 - Dell OPTIPLEX desktops running Windows 10 & Win 11 and 500 Student Chromebooks.  We use a variety of hardware, including iPads, Chromebooks, and Windows tablets, as well as a variety of operating systems including 2019 & 2022 servers, VMware & HyperV virtual servers, Windows 10 & Windows 11, Apple OS and Apple caching servers, Chrome OS, Linux Mint and Arduino. 

SCISD provides our teachers with laptops, projectors, iPads with smartboard apps, document cameras, and Apple TVs to enhance technology integration in the classroom.

Two Windows 2022 domain controllers and multi-core hosts running 2019 & 2022 Hyper-V virtual servers, power our network.  These servers provide teachers with their directories and 14 terabytes of storage space, and 4 terabytes of web space.  SCISD also provides 19 network printers and six high-speed networked copy machines to everyone on the LAN.  SCISD uses Microsoft O365 for intranet/internet email and provides a terabyte of cloud storage for each of our faculty and students.  Our students also have access to both Microsoft O365  and Google apps.

SCISD has full distance learning capabilities that provide students with as many as 30 hours of college upon graduation.

SCISD uses special software including Edgenuity, Renaissance Learning, and Rosetta Stone to enhance special-needs student learning.

SCISD libraries are fully automated using the Follette Destiny Web Libary System.  Elementary, middle, and high school students can access web libraries. The SCISD cafeteria is also automated. Each student has a card that is both their library and cafeteria card. 

Every classroom, lab, and library computer has instant internet access. The Internet at SCISD is filtered by LineWize filtering systems for Chromebooks on and off-site as well as all Windows systems on our LAN.  SCISD uses CrowdStrike anti-virus for desktops and SCISD Servers and is firewalled by an Enterprise Fortinet Firewall and email scanned by Fortinet email service.  Our network is always monitored for cyber attacks by the Regional Secure Operations Center ( RSOC) at Angelo State University.

SCISD is a child-safe school monitored by 53 video surveillance cameras, electric self-locking doors, and armed staff.  Offices and computer labs are protected by motion sensor alarm systems. SCISD Is a guardian district.