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Shawnee Mission: Middle‑school discipline referrals rise while suspensions fall to three‑year low
Summary
District staff told the Board that almost 80% of students had no discipline referrals this year, but referrals spike in middle school. Level‑1 (minor) referrals have increased while level‑3 and level‑4 incidents and suspension events are down, district officials said.
Shawnee Mission School District officials told the school board that most students receive no formal discipline referrals, but middle school students account for a disproportionate share of entries into the district’s discipline system.
Dr. Dan Grueman, the district’s director of assessment and research, told the board that “almost 80 percent of our students never receive a discipline referral” and that the most serious disciplinary actions remain “extremely, extremely rare.” He said the district’s Skyward discipline module and a district discipline matrix — substantially revised several years ago — are being used to track and respond to behavior trends.
The report said: about 79.8 percent of students had no recorded referrals in 2023, falling slightly to about 78.6 percent this year; roughly 9 percent of students had a single referral; about 3.5 percent had two; and about 6 percent had more than three. Referral frequency rises sharply in middle…
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