Schools & Campuses
Storage that survives a thousand students a day
What we usually find
If none of this sounds like your site, you may not need us — and we would rather you worked that out here than after a meeting.
Reassigning every locker each August
Hundreds of lockers, a new cohort, and a paper list. Keys from last year are half returned, padlocks are still attached, and the first week of term is spent on locker administration instead of teaching.
Lost keys and cut padlocks all year round
A student loses a key most weeks. Each one is a lock change or a bolt cutter, an incident record, and a conversation with a parent about a deposit.
Phone policies need somewhere to put the phones
A device policy that says "phones away" without providing secure storage puts staff in the position of holding students' property in a drawer, with all the risk that carries.
Records storage that has quietly overflowed
Student records under retention requirements filling a room that was never designed for it, on shelving that is not rated for the weight.
What changes once it is in
- Keypad codes instead of keys, with no locks to cut, no deposits to hold and no subscription
- Bulk reassignment of a whole year group in one operation
- Phone storage and charging cabinets that make a device policy workable
- Archive shelving and compact mobile shelving rated and labelled for the load
- Secure cabinets with access logs for records under retention obligations
- Robust, ventilated steel construction specified for genuinely heavy daily use
Which lock we would specify here
Battery keypad locks, for most schools, most of the time. The problem in a school corridor is keys — lost weekly, cut constantly, padlocks bolt-cut at the end of term — and a keypad lock removes it entirely with no socket, no cabling and no subscription on a budget that has to be defended annually. Connected access earns its place in two specific spots: where a whole year group must be reassigned centrally rather than door by door, and on cabinets holding student records under retention obligations, where the access log is the requirement. Phone cabinets in exam halls are usually keyed and held by the invigilator.
Buy, or have us fund and run it?
Schools buy. Lockers are a capital item procured through a tender or quotation process, and we will complete your specification and tender documentation rather than asking you to work from a brochure. Where a school wants a paid student locker scheme without capital cost, a managed arrangement is possible.
What we would specify
The families that come up most often for schools. A single room usually ends up with two or three of these rather than one.
- Keyed
- Digital (our default specification)
- Connected
Changing Room & Staff Lockers
The proven steel locker, with whichever lock suits
Conventional full-height changing lockers in 2 to 24 compartments, built for wet areas and daily churn. The shell is identical whichever lock is fitted, so the lock can be revisited without replacing a cabinet.
Sizes & specification →
- Keyed
- Digital (our default specification)
- Connected
Phone Lockers & Device Charging Cabinets
Handphone cells, or a bank built to your opening
High-density steel cells from 12 to 84 per bank, with a mains socket in every cell, in some, or in none — plus charging cabinets built to your opening at roughly 125 bays per metre of wall.
Cells, or built to your opening →
- Digital
- Connected (our default specification)
RFID Tool Management Lockers
Every tool signed out to a person, with nobody behind a counter
Workshop and production-floor tool cribs where each item carries an RFID tag and the cabinet reads its own contents every time a door closes. Issue and return without a storeman, and a live shortage list instead of a quarterly stocktake.
Sizes & specification →
- Keyed (our default specification)
- Digital
Storage Cabinets & Cupboards
The general-purpose steel cupboard, done properly
Two-door cupboards, filing and archive cabinets, glass-fronted display units and low credenzas — the everyday storage that fills back offices, stores and clinic corridors. Unglamorous, and noticed when it is flimsy.
Sizes & specification →
- Keyed
- Digital (our default specification)
- Connected
Secure & Document Cabinets
For records, valuables and media that must not walk
Heavier-gauge cabinets with standalone electronic, fingerprint or card locks, plus anti-magnetic media safes. For requirements that are not simply "lockable" but demonstrably controlled.
Sizes & specification →
- Keyed (our default specification)
Shelving & Bulk Storage
Store rooms that hold more and stay tidy
Boltless light-duty shelving through to heavy pallet racking, plus mobile compact shelving on floor tracks that recovers the aisles. Most store rooms we survey hold half what the floor could take.
Sizes & specification →Quick answer: lockers for schools & campuses in Singapore
Latchwork supplies school lockers in Singapore: student and staff lockers, phone storage cabinets and archive storage for schools, academies and campuses. Student lockers run on keypad codes with no keys to lose — for most schools that means standalone battery keypad locks, needing no socket, no cabling and no annual subscription. Where a whole year group has to be reassigned centrally, connected smart access does it in one operation from a dashboard. Phone cabinets support device policies during lessons and examinations.
Schools & Campuses — questions we get asked
Do we need the connected platform, or will keypad locks do?
For most schools, keypad locks will do, and we will tell you that before you ask. A battery keypad lock removes the lost-key problem entirely, needs no socket, no cabling and no IT approval, and carries no annual subscription against a budget you have to defend every year. The connected platform earns its place in two specific situations: when reassigning a whole year group centrally is worth more than walking the corridor door by door, and on cabinets holding student records under retention obligations, where an access log is the actual requirement. If neither applies, buy keypad locks and spend the difference on heavier doors.
Can a whole year group be reassigned at the start of term?
With connected access, yes — and it is the single biggest time saving there. Assignments are uploaded from a spreadsheet, every student gets their code without anyone handling a key, ending last year's assignments is one operation, and the platform reports which lockers were not emptied so they can be cleared before term starts. With standalone keypad locks the same job means walking the corridor and reprogramming each door with a programming card — perfectly manageable for a hundred lockers over a morning, and the reason larger schools move up to connected access.
What if a student forgets their code?
With keypad locks, staff reset it at the door with the programming card, or open it with the master override key. With connected access, staff look the code up or reset it in the dashboard, or trigger a remote release from a phone. Either way: no bolt cutter, no lock change, no waiting for the caretaker with a key ring.
Are these robust enough for secondary school corridors?
Specify them properly and yes. Heavier gauge doors, welded rather than knock-down construction, a welded plinth so the floor can be washed, and no protruding handles to catch a bag or a shoulder. Student lockers take genuine abuse and the cheapest specification is a false economy — we will quote what will last rather than what wins on price alone.
Do you supply against a school tender specification?
Yes. Send the specification and we will respond to it, including dimensioned drawings, material and finish schedules, load ratings, warranty terms and compliance documentation. If part of the specification is unwise for the application — and school locker specifications sometimes are — we will say so in the submission rather than quietly comply.