In the last couple of decades, developed countries have made a concerted effort to implement extensive safety management systems in their schools to ensure heightened safety performance. Developing and newly industrialised countries such as Saudi Arabia have been slower to introduce such safety systems in their existing Schools, but in recent years have become more committed to reducing accident rates related to poor safety practices. However, there is still a lack of an integrated and holistic approach to the evaluation of safety performance in school environments. The well established balanced scorecard (BSC) framework developed by Kaplan and Norton offers a suitable robust framework that captures both the lead and lag indicators of business performance. The BSC framework principles were adapted to the issue of safety performance evaluation in a Saudi public school environment. In order to develop the conceptual safety performance BSC framework a literature review covering safety factors reported in a range of disciplines was conducted. An expert review process with a total of 18 Saudi teachers, school executive, and Ministry of Education officers resulted in five salient perspectives. Besides that, and to uncover robust model structures, a multivariate statistical technique namely Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out. Future research directions are provided in the concluding section.