By Rodney L. Sherman
Staff writer
HARRISBURG – Public schools in Clarion County reported 119 incidents to the School Safety Report for the 2014-15 school year, the last full year for which information is supplied and tabulated.
That number is down by more than 100 incidents from the 212 reported incidents in 2013-14 and down further from the 262 incidents reported in the 2011-12 school year.
Public schools in Clarion County reported a total enrollment of 5,698 in the 2014-15 school year and that number is down from 5,803 in 2013-14 a drop of 105 students.
The reported 119 incidents for the 2014-15 school year involved 100 different students.
Seventeen of the reported the incidents involved the summoning of law enforcement.
The School Safety Report provides schools, districts and the citizens of the commonwealth detailed information on the status of safety and violence in public schools.
Local school administrators are responsible for the accuracy of the report, however, not all administrators classify incidents the same way and there is no uniform reporting standard.
According to the School Safety Report, “the reader is encouraged to remember each school district, IU, charter school and AVTS determines its own school policies on discipline.
“Each school district establishes its own student code of conduct, which contains the determined list of infractions and the sanctions the district will impose for each infraction.
“While there may be differences between disciplinary actions taken (e.g., a student who comes to School A in inappropriate attire may be given a detention, whereas the same infraction in School B may only require a warning based on the local student code of conduct), the category of offense reported is uniform in accordance with statewide definitions that are reportable.
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