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District reports discipline and incident counts to state; pockets of vaping and isolated weapon incident recorded
Summary
The director of curriculum reviewed the Student Data Safety System submission: last year high school reports included 17 investigations (5 founded), several confirmed substance offenses and confiscated electronic vapes; the district noted a single pocketknife incident that was reported to the state.
The district's director of curriculum (introduced on the record as Gilberto) presented the Student Data Safety System numbers for the prior reporting year and explained how incidents are categorized for state reporting.
"If you look across ... physical contact, we had 7," he said, and added the district recorded 6 physical fights (the middle school accounted for one). He said there were no false alarms or weapons at the high school, but "Dr. Dunleavy had 1; it was a small little pocket knife, but we do report everything." He also reported the high school had 17 investigations with 5 that were founded and confirmed five substance offenses; staff confiscated multiple electronic vaping devices.
Context and process: Gilberto described the district's internal "HIB self-assessment grade" (he referred to it as an "HIV self assessment grade" in the transcript but described it as the annual self-review), noting the high school scored 72 out of 78 and the middle school 73 out of 78 in the internal review. He said the district completes the self-assessment, sends it to the state for review, and the state posts it in May. He emphasized staff document and report incidents according to state categories and deadlines.
Board reaction: Trustees asked about student feedback on expanded remedial supports tied to assessments and about how mastery retakes are proctored; responses focused on tutoring support and immediate diagnostic data to target instruction.
What remains unspecified: several counts and grading items were presented without districtwide totals (enrollment denominators and some subgroup breakdowns were described as "available but confidential"). The district indicated that more detailed, disaggregated information can be provided in staff reports where allowable under confidentiality rules.
Next steps: the board accepted the report and staff will continue to submit state-required incident reports and follow the self-assessment timeline.
