E Hall Pass: Complete Guide, Features, and How It Works in 2026

E Hall Pass, which is also written eHallPass or e-hallpass, is a digital hall pass system that K-12 schools use to handle requests to leave class. It was built by Eduspire Solutions, which Securly acquired in 2022, and it is now sold as Securly Pass. Most people asking about it want to know what it records and whether it follows students around. The short version: Securly says Pass doesn’t use GPS or track the physical location of students or devices, and records only pass details such as destination, time, and approval.

Below you’ll find who makes it, how a pass moves from request to return, what schools can control, and what parents and students may want to ask before relying on it.

Features vary by school and change over time. This article draws on Securly’s public product and support pages, reviewed in September 2026, along with press coverage of the 2022 acquisition.

What Is E Hall Pass?

E Hall Pass is a cloud-based system that replaces paper hall passes. A student requests permission to go somewhere, such as the restroom, nurse, or library. An adult approves the request, and the school gets a record of who was out, where they were going, and for how long. It isn’t something individuals sign up for. Schools and districts license it and set it up for their own students and staff.

The name has changed over the years:

Eduspire, the company behind e-hallpass, was founded in 2016 and is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Securly acquired Eduspire on November 28, 2022. The deal covered Eduspire’s e-hallpass and flex period management software.
Securly rebranded e-hallpass as Pass. Many students still call it by the old name.

So “e hall pass” and “Securly Pass” refer to the same product, though a school might also use a different digital hall pass system that people loosely call by the same name. If you’re not sure which one your school uses, ask your school office or IT team.

Why Schools Are Switching from Paper Passes

Paper passes work, but they leave gaps. A slip tells you where one student is supposed to be, and nothing else. Nobody can see how many students are out across the building, and any record depends on someone writing it down.

	Paper pass	Electronic hall pass
Record of who was out	Only if someone logs it	Kept automatically
Building-wide view	None	Live dashboard
Limits and room caps	Enforced by memory or habit	Set in the system
What it needs	A pen and a slip	A device, kiosk, or teacher-issued pass

The last row is the trade-off. Digital systems ask more of a school’s technology and staff habits than a slip of paper does. Securly’s answer to the device problem is two extras: Proxy Pass lets teachers issue a pass on a student’s behalf, and Pass Kiosk gives students a shared device in places like the gym or cafeteria.

Who Uses E Hall Pass?

Each role sees something different:

Students request passes and choose a destination.
Teachers approve or deny requests and see active passes from their dashboard.
Other staff can be attached to a destination. A location can have several staff members assigned, so a pass to that location appears on all of their dashboards. Arrival is confirmed by an authorized adult.
Administrators set rules such as pass limits, and they can pull custom reports on pass takers and pass granters.

Securly markets Pass to K-12 schools, so it isn’t limited to high schools. Which grades actually use it is a decision each school makes. Parents don’t appear to have their own access in the public materials I reviewed, so if you’re a parent, ask the school what you can see.

Signing in: access comes through your school’s account setup. Use the link your school gives you, and ask your school’s IT team if you get stuck. Look-alike “login portal” sites that show up in search results are not official, and you shouldn’t enter school credentials there.

How E Hall Pass Works

The flow is simple. A student asks, the system checks the school’s rules, an adult approves, and the pass stays open until the student is confirmed back. Schools configure the details differently.

Requesting and Approving a Pass

The student requests a pass. They can do this from a school device or their own device. Whether personal phones are allowed is up to the school. Students without a device can use a kiosk, or a teacher can issue a proxy pass.
The system checks the rules. It looks at whether the student has hit a pass limit, whether the destination is closed or full, and whether another student the requester shouldn’t meet is already out.
An adult approves it, or the system does. Passes are approved by an adult or automatically. Teachers approve from the same screen they teach from, and some schools set up certain passes to approve automatically.
The pass goes live. It appears on the dashboard, and the timer counts up from zero rather than counting down.
Arrival is confirmed. The pass stays active until an authorized adult confirms the student has arrived. That’s meant to prevent a pass from quietly expiring while a student is still on the way.

Teacher approval is the step that keeps adults in control. The software doesn’t decide on its own that a student should leave class, unless the school has told it to auto-approve certain requests.

Tracking Student Movement

“Tracking” here mostly means pass records. The system records the destination, time, and approval for each pass. Securly’s support page says it logs where a student starts and ends a trip within the school, and doesn’t monitor real-time location with GPS. Securly’s own blog adds that even when a student requests a pass from a phone, Pass doesn’t access the device’s GPS or geolocation data, and only knows the destination the student chose.

What that means in practice:

The system knows what a student said they were doing, not where the student physically is.
Staff can check whether a student has an active pass. An adult who meets a student in the hallway can look up the pass from a phone.
Administrators can see passes that are aging or students who are out without an active pass.
Over time, the records make it possible to review patterns, such as which destinations or class periods generate the most passes.

Your school’s settings decide who can see the history and how long it’s kept. See the privacy section below for questions worth asking.

Key Features of E Hall Pass

Beyond requesting and approving passes, Securly’s Pass includes an Appointment Pass module, which lets adults schedule time with students. It also offers proxy passes, kiosks, and reporting. Which ones a school uses depends on its setup.

Pass Limits and Restrictions

This is the feature that gives administrators the most control over hallway traffic. Schools can set a daily pass limit for all students, vary it by grade level, or restrict individual students. They can also prevent particular students from being out of class at the same time. The system enforces limits, pass blocking, and location capacity.

Location limits work the same way for rooms. A school might cap the library at a fixed number of students. When the cap is reached, the next request is turned away until someone returns. One school librarian describes changing a location’s capacity throughout the day, setting it to zero when they aren’t accepting students.

The exact numbers are the school’s choice, and Securly doesn’t set defaults for you.

Real-Time Visibility for Staff

The dashboard is where the records become useful. It shows every active pass, each destination and student, and how long each student has been gone. It runs in a web browser and in a mobile app.

It helps with everyday questions: who’s out right now, whether a student in the hallway is supposed to be there, and which passes have run long. It shows pass activity only. Students who didn’t request a pass don’t appear on it, so it isn’t a headcount of everyone in the building.

Benefits of Using E Hall Pass

The benefits below come from how the system is designed and how Securly describes it. Independent research on outcomes wasn’t part of what I found, so treat them as intended advantages and not guaranteed results.

Improved Student Safety

The safety case rests on records and limits. Adults can see which students are out and where they said they were going, and limits on pass numbers and group meetups aim to reduce crowding in restrooms and hallways. Securly also says staff can use the system to identify where students are by building or room in an emergency.

That claim needs care. A pass log covers students who requested passes. It doesn’t replace a school’s attendance or emergency accounting procedures, and schools shouldn’t treat it as one. Its most realistic value is spotting patterns, like a student who repeatedly leaves at the same time each day, which can start a conversation.

Less Classroom Disruption

Approving a request on a screen is faster than stopping to write a slip, and the teacher can do it without leaving the front of the room. Proxy passes help when a student has no device.

There are trade-offs. If a teacher misses a request, the student waits. Securly’s site features an educator testimonial saying hallway numbers dropped by 30 to 40 percent. That’s a vendor-published quote from one school, not independent evidence, and results will vary.

Common Concerns About E Hall Pass

Most concerns aren’t about the software itself but about how a school configures and uses it.

Waiting for approval. If teachers don’t check requests promptly, students stand around waiting. Schools that agree on expected response times, and that use auto-approval where it makes sense, avoid most of this.

Restroom and health access. Firm limits can hurt students who need more frequent access. One teacher’s write-up, published in 2024, reported two issues at their school. A full restroom produced an error rather than a virtual line, and a higher pass limit couldn’t be set for a single student with a medical need. The software may have changed since then, and Securly’s materials describe individual limits, so treat this as a warning to test before relying on the settings. Families should raise medical needs with the school directly and ask what accommodation process applies. A school shouldn’t depend on a software setting alone for this.

Feeling watched. Some students dislike having every trip logged. The system records what it records (destination, time, approval), but the effect on school culture depends on how adults use the data. Approaching it as a way to notice patterns is different from using it to police every restroom visit.

Student Privacy and Data Tracking

Two separate questions come up here: location and data.

Location. As covered above, Securly says Pass doesn’t use GPS and only records the destination a student chooses. One caution: Securly also sells other products, such as web filtering and student monitoring tools, and its privacy policy describes separate collection practices for those services, including precise device geolocation that schools can enable only when school-issued devices are reported lost or stolen. The no-GPS statement applies to Pass. If your school runs other software on student devices, that software has its own data practices.

Student data. Securly says Pass uses basic school information such as student names and school email addresses, and that some schools also include student ID numbers or grade level. It says data is encrypted, access is limited to authorized users, and use is governed by data privacy agreements. Its privacy policy says it handles student data in line with FERPA and COPPA and never sells student information. FERPA is the US federal law that protects student education records. Those are the company’s statements, and your school’s own agreement with the vendor is what actually governs your data.

Questions worth asking your school:

What information is stored for each pass, and who can see it?
How long are pass records kept?
Can parents request to see records about their child?
What happens to the data if the school stops using the product?
Does the school run any other tools that collect location data?

Tips for Schools Implementing E Hall Pass

Decide who approves what before launch. Settle which destinations need extra staff approval, such as the nurse or counselor, and which can auto-approve.
Build the exceptions process first. Write down how students with medical needs or accommodation plans get different treatment, and test that the software can do what the policy says.
Set a response-time expectation. A shared norm, such as checking requests within a few minutes, prevents most waiting complaints.
Start with moderate limits and adjust. Review the pass data after a few weeks, then tighten or loosen based on what you see.
Plan for students without devices. Decide when to use proxy passes and kiosks so nobody is stuck.
Tell families what’s collected. Use the answers to the privacy questions above, in plain language, before students start using the system.
Ask the vendor about pricing, support, and integrations. Cost and contract terms aren’t published in the public materials I reviewed, so they need to come from Securly or your district’s purchasing office.

Conclusion

E Hall Pass is the earlier name for what Securly now sells as Securly Pass. Schools use it to replace paper slips with a request-and-approval system, a live dashboard, and a record of student movement. Securly states that it records pass details and doesn’t use GPS, though what you’ll experience depends on how your school configures the limits, approvals, and exceptions.

If you’re a parent or student with a concern, start with your school office. Ask what’s recorded, who sees it, and how medical needs are handled. If you’re a school leader weighing it, test the exceptions process and get the pricing and data terms in writing before you commit.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is E Hall Pass used for?

Schools use it to handle requests to leave class, such as trips to the restroom, nurse, or library, digitally instead of with paper slips. Teachers approve requests, and the school keeps a record. It’s now sold as Securly Pass.

Does E Hall Pass track student location?

Not by GPS, according to Securly. The company says Pass records only pass information like destination, time, and approval. That means it knows where a student said they were going, not where they physically are. See the privacy section above for the caveat about other software your school might run.

Can students request a pass from their phone?

It depends on the school. Securly’s materials say students can request from a school device or their own device. Some schools only allow school laptops. Students without a device can use a kiosk, or a teacher can issue a proxy pass.

Is E Hall Pass only for high schools?

No. Securly positions Pass for K-12, and its site describes Proxy Pass as useful for younger grades. Whether a particular school uses it is a local decision.

What happens if a pass request is denied?

The student doesn’t get a pass and stays in class. What the student sees, and whether they can ask again, depends on the school’s settings and the teacher. Students with medical needs should talk to a teacher or the school office about accommodations.

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