School Safety Patrol

The AAA School Safety Patrol Program partners with schools to promote traffic safety.

Since its inception in 1920, the AAA School Safety Patrol Program—instrumental in helping students get to and from school safely—has become the largest safety program in the world, with more than 635,000 patrollers in 33,500 participating schools nationwide.

“The AAA School Safety Patrol Program relies on student volunteers to assist their classmates at crossings, carpool areas, and bus loading and unloading zones,” said AAA traffic safety advocacy project manager Rhonda Shah. “Patrollers receive comprehensive training in the fundamentals of traffic safety, working, in many cases, with local law enforcement. They do not direct traffic, but they help students understand when it is safe to enter roadways,” Shah said.

AAA Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Auto Club Foundation for Safety have an exclusive partnership with the patrol programs in Hennepin County and supply these programs with training materials, safety supplies and recognition items free of charge. Fortunately, Hennepin County school safety patrollers haven’t had a student death at a patrol-guarded crossing. We awarded patroller Hagi Galvin with the AAA Lifesaver Award for saving a fellow student during the 2017-18 school year, an award that has only gone to about 420 other students nationally.

You can support the Minneapolis Auto Club Foundation and AAA School Safety Patrol Program by making a donation the next time you pay your AAA member fees.

For more information, visit AAA.com/Foundation.