About
Richmond High School is a high school located in Richmond. The school consists of a multi-storeyed modern academic building and a comprehensive sports campus, accommodating over 650 students, as of 2025.
“Compass provides our schools with comprehensive modern tools to engage with and support our school communities.”
Richmond High School
The Challenge
Richmond High School replaced a number of co-educational secondary schools previously located in the area that were shut down, despite strong local opposition. The school has two campuses: a multi-purpose site and a ‘vertical’ site, designed to transform the way inner city schools use space – but which also poses a unique set of challenges when it comes to the access of students, staff, and other members of the school community.
Compass Cards develop and support school pride and identity, and our students proudly carry them. From a management perspective, the process from the initial photograph to card production, to deployment is easy and enhances our school operations.
Choosing Compass
We recognised the value in using Compass for the school’s day-to-day functions – for example reporting and wellbeing monitoring – while pioneering the use of Compass Guardian and CompassIdentity cards to manage access issues within the school. Compass was seen as a powerful tool for both saving time on traditional school processes and introducing advanced solutions to new problems.
Results
Overall the school has saved ‘weeks of time’ through Compass, with ‘dozens of hours’ saved on attendance management alone. Meanwhile, far from simply providing a form of identity, CompassIdentity cards are used in the school library, for photocopying and printing, and even in the canteen. It enables the school’s management team to ‘more effectively use these systems and maximise our investment in them.
