Two Autonomous Floor Scrubbers Cover Two Texas High Schools Overnight

Large floors, thin staffing

A Texas school district with two high schools carried a cleaning load spread across two large buildings inside a much bigger district. The district serves more than 24,500 students across 68 facilities covering over 4 million square feet. Each high school floor area is roughly 55,000 and 60,000 square feet, and those floors need care on a schedule that fits around the school day.

Staffing was the pressure point. Shortages made it harder to fill custodial hours, and leadership needed floors kept up without depending on a full crew being on hand every evening. Floor scrubbing is repetitive, physical work that suits a machine, so the question became where autonomous equipment could carry it.

• Two high schools with floor areas of about 55,000 and 60,000 square feet
• Cleaning that has to fit around the school day
• Staffing shortages limiting how many people can cover the work

One scrubber for each high school

The district's facilities contractor suggested autonomous floor scrubbers as a response to the staffing gap. The district placed one unit at each high school, so each building has its own machine rather than one scrubber moving between campuses.

The robot supplier's autonomous floor scrubber was installed in September 2021. Each high school's floors became the working area for its own unit, which kept coverage tied to the building it serves.

• The facilities contractor recommends autonomous floor scrubbers for the labor gap
• One autonomous scrubber placed at each high school
• Installation completed in September 2021

Coverage and continuity, not a headline number

Two autonomous scrubbers now work the floors of two high schools that together span about 115,000 square feet. The clearest result is operational: a district facing staffing shortages put machines on floors that need daily attention, and its Chief Operations Officer described the scrubbers as a major advantage during the labor shortage.

This account dates from late 2022 and describes an installation from September 2021. Read it as a look back at a rollout several years old, useful for understanding scale and fit, rather than as a fresh benchmark for what a new site will save.

What a deployment like this asks of a leasing partner

This is a documented real-world example we analyze, not a client account, and Service Robot Co. did not run this deployment. We are a full-service, OEM-neutral commercial robot integrator for US businesses. We select the right robots across manufacturers, then finance, deploy, integrate, train and service every unit through a nationwide US engineer network, so one partner answers for the whole lifecycle.

Facilities teams weighing a setup like this usually want three things: a machine that fits their floors, a clear cost path, and one number to call when a unit stops. Our customers reach that through commercial robot leasing on a 3-year lease with one fixed robot lease payment, quoted after a site assessment that maps the floor, the obstacles and the coverage before anyone names a figure.