Purpose: identify modern threats of safety of the school and substantiate the direction of their prevention. Methodology: a theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the issues of safety of students. Results: on the basis of theoretical and empirical analysis identified the following threats of social safety of the education environment: criminal threats, threats of extremism and terrorism, physical and mental abuse, interpersonal conflicts, addictive behavior of students. Substantiates the necessity the design of social safety protection, including space of health, space of tolerance, psychologically comfortable space without violence also providing appropriate training of educators. Practical implications: the system of education.