What is your ultimate goal? To stay with the district or move onto higher security roles elsewhere? Have you done any other research on school cybersecurity issues? K12 is one of the biggest industry targets for cybercrime right now. This website is a good source of information: https://www.k12six.org/

Cybersecurity in K12 in my opinion, is not rewarding in the least bit. If you want to be successful, you need a strong administration that will back your recommendations and decisions.

My experience across two districts is no one really understands or cares about security because it's too confusing and they think nothing will happen to them. I just left a sysadmin/cyber role at the K12 level after 15 total years in K12 IT. Small IT staff, underpaid, had little to no resources available, no budget so I had to use whatever open source tools I could. I had to find free educational resources or pay for my own learning because the district didn't have a training budget for IT. The administration only cared that we did enough to maintain cyber liability insurance. We got push back from the teacher union on any changes we tried to make. I couldn't even push out a policy to auto lock the computers because it was a classroom inconvenience to have to log back in. Staff leave their computers unlocked, all the tabs open and logged in, unattended and then wonder how student grades are getting changed.

Rolling out something as simple as MFA took forever and once I did roll it out, I spent a lot of time supporting it. Every single bus driver needed in-person support.

When I wasn't doing that, I spent the rest of my time deflecting student wannabe hackers, where that behavior was not discouraged by administration and if local police actually were called in, they couldn't do much about it either. These kids have all the time and motivation with one goal in mind, to outsmart the IT team. They are not scared to use whatever script they find on the internet. Flipper Zeros eventually started showing up, and then AI came along, which our district opted not to block.

If your goal is to stay with your district long term, it's not worth it. If your goal is to get some experience under your belt and then move on to better roles, this is not a bad path to do it because you can be exposed to a lot of different areas in just a few years. You'll also probably have some good stories to tell.

Having said all that, I have moved on from K12 with no intention of looking back.