Our vision is a world where children travel safely to and from school
Let’s make every school journey safe for our kids!
Each day 500 children are killed in preventable traffic crashes around the world. Sometimes they are killed just yards from the school entrance.
Each traffic death and injury violates a child’s right to an education.
Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) is an award-winning evidence-based programme of tools, training and support to measure, manage and communicate the risk children are exposed to on a journey to school.
SR4S is informing strategic investment in infrastructure upgrades saving lives and preventing serious injuries every day. It is also empowering global and community advocacy to address the leading killer of young people world-wide – road traffic deaths.

FIA Region II Clubs Enhance School Zone Safety Expertise

Scalability Survey: Tools to empower youth and SR4S assessments for safer roads
We would like to invite you to participate in our short survey to evaluate the potential for scalability and replicability of these tools and how iRAP tools can continue to support the SR4S community to save lives. The survey is less than 10 minutes, and we appreciate your feedback by COB 14 November 2023.

Safe and Healthy Journeys to School in Botswana
Botswana school zone received vital road safety improvements through collaboration between the automobile club Emergency Assist 991 and road safety NGO Amend, supported by FIA Foundation.
Gaborone West Junior Secondary School in Botswana has undergone life-saving infrastructure improvements to make the school journey safer for over 800 pupils.

YOURS Campaign: #ClaimingOurSpace and Raising our Voice – Youth Consultation 2023
Inviting young people aged 15-35 from anywhere in the world to take part in the Consultation by completing an interactive online survey to collate and gather unique insights that will help shape the GYC’s future work as well as formulate policy documents that will empower young leaders to demand and deliver change on a local level.

Building on international collaboration to leverage regional strengths for safer school zones across Asia Pacific
AIP Foundation, FIA Foundation, and iRAP are proud to announce a new collaboration to build capacity for all FIA Region II Clubs. Funded by the FIA Foundation, the first phase of the program will focus on the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) methodology developed by iRAP.

Automóvil Club de Chile launch school environment improvements – Puente Alto, Chile

Star Rating for Schools September 2023 Newsletter

iRAP welcomes new Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Coordinator, Minh Vo

Improving the Safety of School Zones across FIA Region II
AIP Foundation and iRAP are partnering to deliver a training programme to Region II clubs exploring the implementation of safety interventions around schools and how assessment programmes can be scaled up to deliver safe speeds and infrastructure around schools. The project will also provide in-country support to select Region II Clubs to adopt structured school safety programmes.

Youth Participation in School Safety Zones Assessment: A Case Study in Indonesia

Safer School Zone improvements celebrated in Zimbabwe

TKA undertake SR4S assessments to understand safety around Lithuanian schools
In 2023, specialists of the Public Enterprise Transport Competence Agency (TKA) conducted studies, which included the use of SR4S assessments, to evaluate the safety of infrastructure around five private and five state Lithuanian schools in Vilnius and Kaunas.

Peru awarded honourable mention for SR4S project
In the Good Urban Management Category, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has been awarded an Honourable mention for its Safe School Environments Program which is using SR4S to evaluate and improve the safety of school journeys around its municipality schools in Peru.

Portugal’s National Strategy for Active Pedestrian Mobility 2030 recommends Star Rating for Schools to assess safety and walkability
Portugal’s new National Strategy for Active Pedestrian Mobility 2030 recommends for the use of iRAP Star Rating for Schools for walkability assessment studies to assess risk, star rate safety and inform investment to save lives and prevent serious injuries.

Implementation of Safe School Zone in the Condado sector (Ecuador)
The Municipality of Quito, through Epmmop and with the support Star Rating for Schools Global Programme Partner 3M, developed the safe school zone project in the area of the Sixto Durán Ballén school.

A global road safety program that seeks to protect children in their school environments arrives in Chile
The Star Rating for School programme will be executed by Automóvil Club de Chile (ACC) and the first intervention will be carried out in a school in the Lo Espejo commune, as part of a project to implement 200 school road safety improvements throughout the country in five years.

A road safety journey from a SR4S Youth Leader
Tendekayi Marapara, a road safety advocate, shares his road safety journey- Part 1

8 projects funded for safer school streets – FIA Road Safety Grants announced
The FIA has announced the recipients of their 2023 Road Safety Grants Programme in four streams, including to clubs to support safer school journeys. Eight projects will implement the FIA School Assessment Toolkit, three will promote Helmet and Motorcycle Safety, five will deploy the ‘Drive in the Moment’ toolkit to fight Distracted Driving, and eight will focus on Partnership Support.

iRAP receives Google support to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Road Safety
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools and AiRAP partnerships will be scaled up to provide 3-star or better journeys to school and address road traffic crashes that are the leading cause of death among children and young people worldwide.

What makes a 3-star or better school journey?

Global Alliance member HOVITA used SR4S assessments for a ‘Scaling up Advocacy for Safe School Zone Uganda – Gulu City Pilot Project’

Speed management infrastructure piloted to support new 30km/h speed limit rules around schools in Moldova (EASST)
Last September, the Government of the Republic of Moldova approved amendments to the National Road Regulations mandating that all school zones should have a default maximum speed limit of 30km/h. This policy change followed a 2 year advocacy campaign led by local NGO and EASST partner, the Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM)….

Want to help make journeys to school safe? We’re recruiting a Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Coordinator

New SR4S model will go live on Tuesday June 27

UNRSF 2022 Annual Report launches with SR4S Partner projects featured

3M extends support of SR4S as Global Programme Partner for two more years

Star Rating for Schools May 2023 Newsletter

Enhancements coming to the Star Rating for Schools model – all the information you need to know

UNICEF Paraguay – Students analysed road safety in the school environment

Four school zones in Georgia get a ‘5 Star’ upgrade informed by SR4S App
