Cleaning verification for schools
In a school, a clean is a classroom, a restroom or the cafeteria, done to your custodial checklist. CleanZ records each one: the steps, the products and their contact times, photos where you ask for them, and the head custodian's approval, in one sealed, audit-ready record your district can find by room and date.
What a clean means here
- Classrooms at the end of the day
- Restrooms, several times a day
- Cafeterias and serving areas after each meal
- Gyms, locker rooms and the nurse's office
Who asks for proof
- Parents
- Ask how restrooms and classrooms are cleaned, and who checks.
- School boards
- Want to know what the custodial budget pays for.
- Principals
- Need to answer a complaint about a room with facts, not memory.
- District facilities directors
- Need to see how each building checks its cleaning.
How a clean becomes a record
Area marked dirty
The head custodian marks an area, or the custodian scans the tag by the classroom or restroom door.
Checklist loads
The area picks its steps and products from your custodial checklist, so a restroom and a classroom get different steps.
Guided steps
One step per screen, with a countdown for each disinfectant's contact time.
Proof captured
Photos where your checklist asks for them, plus exceptions such as a locked room or an empty dispenser.
Rules check
The clean can't be submitted until every required step and photo is there.
Supervisor review
The head custodian approves from a phone, or sends it back with a reason.
Spot check
On a sample of areas, a facilities lead checks in person, with a fluorescent or ATP test if you use them.
Sealed record
Locked once approved, and found later by room and date.
What you could save
The hours a supervisor spends checking cleans by hand, and what those hours cost. Try your own numbers.
One school, 60 areas, 180 school days.
- 10,800 cleans a year
- 6 minutes to check one by hand
- 3.4 minutes per clean with CleanZ
- $36.30 an hour: a supervisor's mean wage of $25.41 (Elementary and secondary schools) divided by wages' share of total pay, 70.0%
| Approach | Hours a year | Labor cost a year |
|---|---|---|
| Checking every clean by hand | about 1,080 | about $39,204 |
| With CleanZ | about 612 | about $22,216 |
| Labor saved | about 468 | about $16,988 |
Compared with checking every clean by hand. Checking only 1 in 10 by hand costs less, but leaves 9 in 10 unchecked. Labor only, before the CleanZ subscription. Example figures; your numbers will differ.
Wages: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023: 37-1011 First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Does CleanZ store student information?
No. It records rooms and areas, tasks, products, staff roles and results. Nothing about students or families.
Not every custodian is comfortable with apps. Will this work?
It is built for that. One step per screen, large buttons, instructions in English, Spanish or Cantonese, and it works without a signal.
Can a district run it across several schools?
Each school runs its own cleaning checklist during a pilot. One checklist library governed across several sites is planned, not built yet.
Does it replace our work order system?
No. CleanZ doesn't assign or dispatch work. It runs beside your current system and adds the record of each clean.
What does a pilot look like in a school?
A paid 60 to 90 day pilot in one building, measured against a baseline you approve before it starts.
See how one clean becomes one record.
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