Schools
What to prepare for an EICR in a school or academy
Plan a school or academy EICR around the site you manage: buildings, distribution boards, occupied rooms and access windows. A clear instruction helps the office quote the intended installation and agree the visit.
Reviewed 5 October 2026 by George Opsenica (Director, Codeex Maintenance Ltd). General guidance, not a reading of your own report and not legal advice.
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- George Opsenica: service information and presentation.
- George Opsenica: service information and presentation.
Send this before anyone quotes
Site contact
Name the person who can open boards and stay with the inspection.
Boards
How many distribution boards are in scope, and which are in plant rooms or risers.
Teaching rooms
Which rooms are occupied, and when a circuit can be off.
Critical supplies
Alarms, servers, kitchens, workshops, or lifts that cannot be off together.
Shutdown
Say what the school can isolate, and what it cannot. Do not assume a holiday.
Out of hours
Out-of-hours access and charges must be agreed with the office. If a building can only be isolated outside the school day, that is agreed on the quotation.
Landlord areas
A landlord's intake may sit outside the school's demise. Say who controls that door.
Previous papers
Send the last report and any circuit chart, and say whether the chart has been checked.
Name the areas before the visit is planned
| Area | What to say | What not to assume |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching rooms | When they are occupied, and which circuits can be off during a lesson | That a holiday is available |
| IT and servers | Which supplies must stay on, and who can authorise a shutdown | That they can be isolated with the classrooms |
| Kitchen or workshop | Where the boards are, and whether the load is in the school's scope | That every school has one |
| Plant and alarms | Who holds the keys, and which systems cannot be off together | That the caretaker can open every door |
| A caretaker's flat | Whether it is actually a specified tenancy | That the classrooms take the rented-housing interval |
Plan the day around the school, not the other way round
Name one site contact who can stay with the inspection and open the boards. Say which distribution boards are in scope, including risers and plant rooms. Say which rooms will be in use, and which critical supplies cannot be off together. If isolation is only possible outside the school day, that limit is written into the quotation. Out-of-hours access and charges must be agreed with the office.
Send the last report and any circuit chart, and say whether the chart has been checked against the boards. A landlord's intake may sit outside the school's demise. Say who controls that door. The estates team, the business manager and the facilities lead are useful because they know the building. They are not given an inspection interval on this page.
A workplace duty is not the rented-housing interval
The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 are a workplace duty to prevent danger so far as is reasonably practicable. They are not the private-rented rule that sets an inspection at no more than five years for a specified tenancy.
Use the rented-housing interval only where a specified tenancy actually exists, for example a caretaker's flat that is let on that basis. Do not paste that interval onto classrooms because the site is in London. This page does not quote an academy-trust or local-authority interval. If a trust has its own policy, that policy is the trust's document, not a rule stated here.
Ask for the inspection on the commercial EICR page.
Prepare the school’s site brief
Give the office the practical information needed to quote the installation and agree an appropriate visit.
Buildings in scope
Name each block, annexe, classroom area and board intended to be included. Identify any separately managed buildings.
Site access
Explain reception, escort and safeguarding arrangements that attending contractors need to follow.
Teaching and site use
Give suitable access windows and identify occupied rooms, clubs or events that affect the proposed work.
Supplies and records
Provide existing reports and board information where available. Flag systems whose interruption needs prior agreement.
Related pages
Name the boards and the hours
Classrooms are not given the private-rented five-year interval on this page.
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