Commercial Cleaning for Education Facilities
Cleaning for private schools, daycares and childcare facilities. In these environments background screening is the baseline, not a bonus.
- Screening requirement understood
- Summer-window work
- Flu-season frequency
School and daycare cleaning starts with a legal gate rather than a scope. Florida requires Level 2 background screening for contracted personnel with access to K-12 grounds while students are present, and any cleaning company bidding on a school account should raise that before you do.
Facilities we service
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Private and charter schools -
Daycares and preschools -
Colleges and universities -
Trade and technical schools -
Tutoring and learning centers -
Dormitories and student housing common areas -
Athletic and field houses
Screening comes before scope
Florida requires Level 2 background screening for contracted personnel with access to K-12 grounds while students are present. It is a statutory gate, and a cleaning company bidding on a school account should raise it before the school has to.
- Every crew member assigned to a school account clears screening as a condition of the assignment.
- Status is confirmed per individual before the first visit, not once at the start of a contract.
- Nobody reaches the site without it, cover for an absence and extra hands for a summer window included.
- Where a preschool or childcare ministry shares a building, the same rule covers those rooms.
The summer window is the real buying season
The heaviest work of the school year happens while the building is empty. Strip and wax across a whole facility, carpet extraction, high dusting and deep cleaning all compress into a fixed break, and the length of that break is the constraint rather than the square footage.
- Whole-building strip and wax, scheduled months out against the break calendar.
- Carpet extraction through classrooms, libraries and administration.
- High dusting in gyms, cafeterias and any space with height.
- Post-construction cleaning where summer building works overlap the break.
- Outdoor work booked into the same window, including landscape and general-play turf. Equipment fall zones need an impact-rated install and are a separate trade.
What a school and daycare cleaning scope covers
Classroom cleaning is bought on frequency and on what the crew is trained to reach. Daycare rooms run tighter rules than classrooms, set by state licensing rather than by the contract.
- Classrooms: desks, shared devices, handles and rails, floors and waste.
- Restrooms serviced more than once on a school day rather than once at night.
- Cafeterias and kitchens: tables, serveries, floors and drains.
- Gyms, corridors and stairwells, where floor care carries the visible standard.
- Daycare rooms: food-contact surfaces and changing tables cleaned and disinfected between uses, and mouthed toys washed before they circulate again.
School & Daycare Cleaning questions we get asked
Are your crews background screened for school work?
Florida law requires Level 2 screening for contracted personnel with access to K-12 grounds when students are present, and we treat clearing it as a condition of assignment to a school account. Screening status is confirmed for every individual assigned before work begins.
How often should schools and daycares be cleaned?
Classrooms, restrooms and high-touch surfaces daily, with restrooms more than once on a school day, and disinfection concentrated on what hands actually reach: desks, handles, rails, shared devices. Daycares run tighter rules set by state licensing: food-contact surfaces and changing tables are cleaned and disinfected between uses rather than on a schedule, and toys that go in mouths are washed before they circulate again. The useful discipline is a posted frequency chart per room type, so "cleaned daily" is a checkable claim rather than an impression.
Can you complete a whole-building strip and wax over summer break?
Yes, and that is when most of it should happen. Summer turnaround work is scheduled well in advance because the constraint is the length of the break rather than the size of the building.
Do you increase cleaning frequency during flu season?
Restroom and high-touch frequency should rise through respiratory season, and we would rather write that into the contract from the start than treat it as a change order every winter.