Some Jefferson Parish schools will get safety upgrades after the district received more than $600,000 in state money to implement security updates and other violence prevention measures at 13 of its campuses.

The grants, announced this week, are part of an ongoing push to strengthen school security across Louisiana.

In Jefferson Parish, which was awarded the highest amount of funding in the state, officials said the money will be used to install entranceway vestibules – small rooms that serve as a transition space leading into a larger room, like a lobby – to screen visitors before they enter the main area of each campus.

The schools tapped to receive the upgrades include:

Emmett C. Gilbert School of Excellence at Ford

Strehle Community School

Phoebe Hearst School

West Jefferson Hig

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