STANFORD - A police officer arrived at Olympia High-Middle School Tuesday afternoon, just hours after six guns were found and three students arrested at Pontiac Township High School.

Olympia Superintendent Brad Hutchison said the officer would be at the school complex Wednesday and as needed. Plans already were in the works for a resource officer to be at the school every day once details were worked out with McLean County sheriff's police.

The situation in Pontiac resonates with Olympia because that district had a lockdown last October after a message threatened gun violence, Hutchison said.

Improvements were made to school security cameras and a new security entrance system was installed over the summer, Hutchison said. School crisis plans were being reviewed in a faculty meeting after the Pontiac situation.

"No one has come forth with any anxiety concerns we're aware of," he said.

Bloomington District 87 also has a wide variety of security measures and procedures in place and the staff has just gotten fresh reminders with the start of the school year, said Superintendent Robert Nielsen.

But nothing takes the place of people being the eyes and ears in the field, he said. "Our best defense is to have students and parents sharing rumors with us," he said. Letting officials know immediately is vital so they can investigate immediately and decide the merits of the information.

Nielsen noted he read media accounts about the Pontiac incident that said a student told a school official about the guns. "It confirms what I've been saying," he said.

Districts 87 looks at what happens in school districts across the country to see what they can learn, he said. But with Pontiac being one county away, Nielsen said, "It certainly brings it home. It can happen anywhere."