Office of Maintenance and Custodial Services

The Care of School Buildings and Grounds

Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) Maintenance and Custodial Services manages and cares for the school divisions’ buildings and grounds while handling smaller-scale repairs (through the completion of work orders), and also the cleaning of school buildings. Facility pages have been set up for each school to keep families and the Alexandria community aware of such events as well as planned repairs and modernization.

School-Wide Air Purifier Installation Program

ACPS classroom and learning spaces air quality improvement initiative

During the week of May 3, 2021, Maintenance and Custodial Services executed a mass installation project in all Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) classrooms and learning spaces as proposed during the April 22, 2021 School Board Meeting that mentioned improving air quality in our facilities. 

Air purifiers were distributed and installed throughout ACPS schools and classrooms in accordance with our continued dedication to safety protocols amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These air purifiers will ensure our efforts for the safety of our students and staff maintain a priority.

How effective are these air purifiers? They can clean the air of an average-sized classroom in well under an hour, and their medical-grade filters can capture 99.99% of airborne contaminants down to 0.1 microns, including allergens and aerosolized viruses that can spread from person to person. Since these air purifiers are also designed to operate continuously without ever needing to shut off, they will ensure our classrooms and other facilities have clean air circulating through them at all times.

Nearly 1,400 of these air purifiers were deployed to 22 educational facilities where they were tested, installed, and activated in classrooms, gymnasiums, and auditoriums, as well as other approved areas beneficial to teaching and learning. For more information about these air purifiers, visit Alen, the supplier for these units. Our building engineers are responsible for the replacement of the air filters and ensuring they are working properly.