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Phone Pouch Cost Calculator for Schools

A pouch program costs more than the pouches. Add the ones you replace every year and the staff time spent handing them out and unlocking them, for your own enrollment, then print the five-year total for your budget meeting.

Your pouch program
students
per student

Yondr’s price sheet on the ESC Region 13 co-op lists $30 per pouch, or $27 for co-op members.

%

Lost, broken or never returned. The 20% default is an assumption, not a published figure: use your own school’s.

Staff time
min each

Minutes each staff member spends handing out, collecting and unlocking pouches. The 40-minute default is an assumption.

per hour

The $26 default is an assumption: use your own staff pay.

Staff on pouch duty

4people

One per 250 students, at least 2. Change it under assumptions.

LockedIn
per student a year

We quote each school in writing and publish no prices, so this starts blank. Enter the per-student figure from your quote to compare.

Assumptions180 school days a year, 5 years, one staff member per 250 students and at least 2.
Assumptions
days
years
students
people

What a pouch program costs over 5 years

Modeled for 1,000 students.

Pouches, year 1
$30,000
1,000 students × $30
Replacements, years 2–5
$24,000
20% of pouches a year × 4 years
Staff time, 5 years
$62,400
4 staff × 40 min a day × 180 days × $26 an hour
Pouch program, 5 years
$116,400

Pouch program total over 5 years: $116,400.

LockedIn

One per-student license in place of every line above: no pouches to replace, no unlocking hardware and no daily collection. We quote each school in writing, so enter your quote above to compare.

Get a written quote for 1,000 students

Modeled figures for illustration, from the inputs above. The pouch price default comes from Yondr’s ESC Region 13 co-op price sheet; the replacement, staff time and wage defaults are assumptions. Actual costs vary by vendor, contract and staffing. Not included: pouch setup and unlocking stations. LockedIn is priced per student, per year. Ask us for a written comparison for your school.

What the model counts

Every figure comes from a number on the sheet. Nothing is hidden in the math.

  • Pouches, year one

    One pouch per student at the price you enter. Yondr’s price sheet on the ESC Region 13 purchasing co-op lists each pouch at $30, or $27 for co-op members, and that is only the starting cost.

  • Replacements

    Pouches are consumables. Some are lost, broken or carried home and never returned, so a share is bought again every year after the first. There’s no published benchmark for that share, so the 20% default is an assumption, not a published figure: replace it with your own.

  • Staff time

    Someone hands out pouches each morning, unlocks them at dismissal and sorts out the student who arrives without one, every school day. That labor never appears on a vendor quote. The model puts one staff member on it per 250 students, at least two, and you can change both. The 40 minutes a day and $26 hourly wage are assumptions, not published figures, so replace them with your school’s own.

  • What it leaves out

    Unlocking stations and their installation, and setup. Ask your pouch vendor for those figures and add them to the total.

  • The LockedIn side

    LockedIn is priced per student, per year, and quoted in writing for your enrollment, so it stays blank until you enter your quote. There are no pouches to replace, no unlocking bases at the doors and no daily collection: phones lock on campus during school hours, and the dashboard keeps a record of who was locked in and when. Pilots for one grade or one campus are available, and Title I schools can apply for subsidized or fully covered access.

The full breakdown, with a worked example for a 1,000-student school, is in the Yondr pouch cost guide. For everything else pouches ask of a school, read LockedIn compared with Yondr or the phone pouch alternative overview.

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