Screen every school volunteer for just $5.
Parent chaperones, classroom helpers, tutors, coaches — anyone with access to your students gets a full national criminal & all-50-state sex-offender check plus real identity verification. Cheap enough to screen the whole volunteer roster, every school year.
FCRA-compliant No per-seat fees Results in minutes
Pop quiz
Who's standing next to your students?
Your school runs on volunteers — and many of them get direct, sometimes unsupervised, time with kids. These are the folks worth verifying:
Field-trip chaperones
On the bus, off campus, hands-on with your kids.
Classroom reading buddies
One-on-one time with early readers.
Lunchroom & library helpers
Familiar faces in the hallways every week.
Coaches & club leaders
After-school teams, band, drama, robotics.
PTA & booster officers
Handling money — and trust — on your behalf.
Event & carnival volunteers
The whole community, on your campus.
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Every $5 school-volunteer check
Criminal records
650M+ county, state & federal court records
Sex-offender registries
All 50 states + national registry
Identity verification
Government photo ID + biometric selfie
Address history
SSN-traced — free on every check
Watchlists
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC / global
Three periods and you're done
Send the application
Email a link or drop a QR code in the school newsletter. Parents apply from their phone in minutes.
We verify + screen
Government ID + selfie confirms the real person, then the $5 national check runs. You do nothing.
Get a clear status
A green “verified” badge (or a flagged review) lands on your roster — with FCRA adverse-action built in.
On a PTA budget? Let parents cover their own $5.
Flip on volunteer-pays and each parent pays for their own check at sign-up — screening stays 100% free for the school, and you still get a verified result for every volunteer.
Screen every volunteer who has access to your students
Schools, PTAs, PTOs, and booster clubs run on volunteers — field-trip chaperones, reading tutors, lunchroom and library helpers, dance and sports coaches, and event staff. Many of them have direct, sometimes unsupervised, access to children, and a growing number of states and school districts now require a criminal background check (often including a sex-offender registry search) for any volunteer with that kind of access. Meeting that bar across hundreds of parent volunteers, on a PTA budget, is where most programs get stuck.
VolunteerBadge makes district-grade screening affordable: $5 for a full national criminal background check spanning 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — with a free address-history check on every applicant. There are no per-seat fees and no annual contract, so a single school or a whole district pays only for the checks it actually runs.
And because a clean name is not the same as a verified person, VolunteerBadge confirms each volunteer with a government photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie matched to the ID. When the people you are clearing will be standing next to children, verifying the actual human — not just a name and date of birth anyone could enter — is the safeguard name-only screening can never provide.
School volunteer screening — questions parents & principals ask
How much does a school volunteer background check cost?+
Through VolunteerBadge, a full national criminal background check is $5 per volunteer — with a free address-history check and FCRA-compliant adverse-action workflow included, and no per-seat or monthly fees on the pay-as-you-go plan. That makes it realistic to screen every parent volunteer, not just a few.
Do schools legally have to background check volunteers?+
It depends on your state and district. Many states require a criminal background check — and sometimes a fingerprint-based check or sex-offender registry search — for volunteers who have unsupervised or repetitive access to students. Even where it is not mandated, screening volunteers is a recognized duty-of-care best practice. Check your state’s requirements before the school year starts.
Does the check include a sex-offender registry search?+
Yes. Every $5 VolunteerBadge check searches sex-offender registries across all 50 states, alongside 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — the coverage schools care about most for anyone working with children.
How often should school volunteers be re-screened?+
Most districts re-screen volunteers every year or every few years for anyone with ongoing student access. VolunteerBadge’s low per-check price and automated re-screening reminders make annual screening practical even for an all-volunteer PTA.
Can parents pay for their own background check?+
Yes. VolunteerBadge lets you turn on volunteer-pays, so each parent covers their own $5 check during the application — keeping screening completely free for the school or PTA while still giving you verified results and a clearance status for every volunteer.
How do we handle the consent form for a school volunteer check?+
The FCRA requires a standalone written disclosure and signed authorization before any check. VolunteerBadge builds compliant electronic consent directly into the volunteer application, so it is captured, e-signed, and stored automatically — no paper forms to chase. See our volunteer background check consent form guide for the details.
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Make the honor roll of safe schools
Set up your school or PTA in a few minutes and screen your first volunteer for $5 — no contract, no per-seat fees, cancel anytime.
Screen a volunteer for $5