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Student services reports truancy and suspension trends; alternative-school enrollment steady
Summary
Student services presented multi-year charts showing truancy, suspension and expulsion trends, noting some school-level spikes, roughly 70 students enrolled in alternative or evening-school programs and plans to review code-of-conduct responses.
District student‑services staff presented data on truancy, suspension and expulsion trends and described which schools showed spikes that prompted follow-up.
Summary of findings The presenter provided three years of monthly data for truancy and for alternative/evening-school enrollment, and two years of comparable suspension data (noting a change in reporting methodology for suspension incidents). The presenter reported that as of June 17, the total number of students enrolled in alternative or evening school was 70, unchanged from a prior board report. The truancy charts showed some increases during January–March in the most recent year, and a few individual schools had notable spikes; staff will follow up with principals at those sites.
Discipline reporting details Student-services staff explained that the new suspension reporting counts instances rather than the previous measure (which counted affected students), and gave an example: a single fight involving six students could appear as one incident under the new count, whereas prior reporting might list six students affected. Hearing‑office referrals and out‑of‑school suspension incidents were also summarized monthly.
Next steps and context The presenter said staff had contacted principals at schools with spikes to investigate reasons tied to transitions and other local circumstances. The district’s code-of-conduct committee is reviewing consequences for intentional device damage and related accountability measures; staff noted that graduation privileges could not be withheld as a universal enforcement mechanism but that other disciplinary processes are under consideration.
Why this matters Attendance and discipline metrics inform interventions, staffing and programmatic responses; patterns of truancy and disciplinary incidents can trigger targeted supports.
Ending Board members asked staff to continue providing the charts in graphic (bar chart) format for monthly board updates and to continue trend monitoring over the coming year.
