Schools

LED signs for schools

Tell families about events, enrolments and pupil free days as they drive in, and put notices and student achievements on a screen in the foyer. We design and build school signs at our workshop in Welshpool, install them across WA, and your office changes them from a phone or laptop.

Schools

Who our school signs are for

public and independent primary schools
high schools, colleges and K to 12 schools
early learning centres and kindergartens

What to show on a school sign

At the front gate or beside the road:

“Pupil free day this Friday”
“Kindy enrolments for 2027 now open”
“Open day Tuesday 9am to 11am. All welcome”
“Book Week parade Wednesday 8.45am”
“Congratulations to our Year 12 graduates”
“Kiss and drive: please move forward” or “Slow down. Children crossing”

In the foyer, hall or library:

a welcome for visitors and new families
the day’s notices, assembly times and bus changes
student work, and photos from camps and carnivals
sport results and awards

Which sign suits your school

Front entry and pylon signs

A sign on the front fence, on the building or on a pylon beside the road reaches every family at drop-off and pick-up. An entry statement carries the school name with a message you can change, and a double-sided sign is seen by traffic from both directions.

Full colour shows your crest, photos and video.
Single colour keeps to red text and numbers: the classic message board for dates and notices, at a lower cost.

Our FA2 outdoor signs have no fans and run without air conditioning in heat up to 55 degrees, which matters on a front fence that faces the afternoon sun. See outdoor LED signs and pylon signs.

Screens for foyers, halls and libraries

Indoor LED displays show notices, events and achievements where students and parents wait. They range from countertop signs to feature walls, and our FA3 wall panels are just 42 mm thick. See indoor LED displays and full colour LED screens.

Size and pixel pitch

As a rough rule, the pixel pitch in millimetres is about the distance in metres from which the picture looks smooth. A roadside sign read from cars suits a larger pitch, such as P10, and a foyer screen read from a few metres away suits a smaller one. See both on our pixel pitch planner.

Updating the sign from the office

A new message takes seconds. Depending on the sign, the office uses ViPlex Express or HDPlayer on a computer, LedArt or ViPlex Handy on a phone, or VNNOX or LED-Cloud online. Plan a term of notices ahead, and schedule a drop-off reminder for the morning and tomorrow’s excursion for the afternoon. We set up the software and train your staff, and step by step guides are on Brochures and guides.

Approvals for a school sign

A new sign on the front fence often needs council approval, and if the school is on a main road, Main Roads WA may need to approve it as well. We handle the paperwork with you as part of the job, at no extra cost. Read our council approval guide.

Schools we have worked with

St James’ Anglican School: a full colour LED pylon sign.
Ballajura Community College: a full colour LED sign.

Both are on our projects page, and for message ideas, read how schools use digital signs and celebrating student achievements on digital signs.

Hire or buy

Hire or buy a school sign

Hire a portable sign for the school gate, an open day, a fete or enrolment week, or a solar trailer sign that stands on the verge with no power nearby. Book it for a morning or a whole term. Perth schools can often have it the same day, and we deliver to schools anywhere in Australia, then set it up and show the office how to change it.

For a sign you will use all year, buying often works out better. Ledge Finance can spread the cost over fixed monthly payments, with no large upfront payment. The warranty is 1 to 5 years, depending on the product. We can price both so your school can compare.

School sport and scoreboards

For ovals, courts and sports carnivals, a portable LED scoreboard rolls out for game day and packs away after. Aquinas College in Perth uses mobile scoreboards. Run one from a phone with Basic, the iCatcher Scoreboard app, which has ten sports built in. Or run a full colour board with Advanced, Olympyx, which comes installed on the scoreboard and sounds the siren by itself. For a single carnival, we hire out portable scoreboards across Perth and WA.

See electronic and LED scoreboards, scoreboard hire and portable or built-in scoreboard.

Talk to us about a sign for your school

Send us a photo of the front of the school and tell us what the sign needs to say. We will come back with a size, a design and a free quote.

Head office: Unit 2/328 Orrong Road, Welshpool WA 6106 · (08) 9335 7944