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Board hears attendance, behavior and counselor workload data; district highlights supports and suspension concerns
Summary
District staff reported December attendance and January discipline totals, described counselor and social-worker activity, and reiterated efforts to reduce long suspensions for students with disabilities.
District student-services leaders gave the board an update on attendance, behavior incidents, and the work of counselors and social workers.
The report covered December attendance (district target 96.5%) and noted secondary attendance is depressed by exam scheduling patterns; the presenter highlighted Wilton Elementary and Butner STEM as the top elementary and secondary attendance performers for the month. For January the district recorded 15 referrals that month, 51 in-school-suspension days and 23 out-of-school-suspension days; the top referral categories were excessive tardiness, disruptive behavior and aggressive behavior. Staff said January’s lower referral totals partly reflected limited in-person days because of weather.
Counselor workloads were highlighted. The district said some high-school counselors reported hundreds of academic sessions (group and individual) already this year; middle-school counselors reported dozens of individual sessions and family contacts; an elementary social worker reported developing more than 60 behavioral-plan strategies in one building. Staff emphasized counselors’ roles in academic planning, GPA education, scholarship outreach and behavioral supports.
Board members asked whether counselors work with exceptional-children students; the district confirmed they do. A board member asked about the district’s current graduation rate; staff said last year’s four-year cohort rate was about 84% and noted the district tracks four- and five-year rates separately. A board member cautioned against “passing students through” without proficiency; staff reiterated efforts to improve proficiency and maintain diploma integrity.
On behavior, the board discussed CPI and crisis-prevention training: the district said it is rebuilding a regular CPI refresh and certification schedule, has three in-district CPI trainers and plans to increase training opportunities without removing teachers from instruction unnecessarily (for example, offering shorter refreshers after school). The district said goals include training more general-education staff and increasing parent-facing prevention efforts via community sessions and preschool supports.
Separately, district staff reiterated that they are working to manage suspension disproportionality for students with disabilities through earlier interventions and behavior plans, and they described progress on coaching and program staffing to support that work.
No formal action was taken; the board received the report and asked follow-up questions.
