The Safe Schools Initiative will keep falling short until the lack of security beyond school grounds is confronted. It led the United Nations, global business leaders and the Nigerian government to launch the Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) the following month, initially covering 500 schools in the northeastern states. According to data in Nigeria’s National Plan on Financing Safe Schools, more than 42,000 primary and secondary schools across northern Nigeria lacked perimeter fencing. A sustainable solution to a lack of security at schools lies in comprehensive community security. Nigeria’s schools cannot be secure while the communities around them remain unsafe.