SAN ANTONIO – More than 3,000 public school students in the San Antonio area were disciplined for fighting and over 150 for assaulting district employees during the 2015-2016 school year, discipline reports show.
At the end of the year, schools throughout the state report disciplinary actions to the Texas Education Agency.
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Incidents fall under various categories. From fighting to firearms on campus, the TEA monitors trends in disciplinary incidents to generate a comprehensive report.
According to the TEA, fighting is "two or more students or persons that choose to mutually engage in physical combat using blows or force to strive to overcome the other student(s) or person(s)."
Assault of a district employee is defined as "when a person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another person. For purposes of this reason, an assault must involve a victim and a perpetrator(s) and the victim must receive bodily injury."
These campuses had the most reported fights:
1.) Davis Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 118
2.) Jay High School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 67
3.) Rhodes Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 66
4.) Wheatley Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 63
5.) Jones Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 52
6.) Tafolla Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 59
7.) Rogers Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 57
7.) Pease Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 57
8.) Holmes High School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 55
9.) Connell Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 54
9.) Stevens High School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 54
10.) South San High School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 53
10.) Vale Middle School
Incidents of fighting/mutual combat: 53
These campuses had the most reported assaults against employees:
1.) Roosevelt High School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 8
2.) Henry Metzger Middle School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 7
2.) Walzem Elementary School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 7
2.) Alternative Elementary School (NISD)
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 7
3.) Clemens High School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 5
3.) Jay High School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 5
3.) Southwest High School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 5
3.) Montgomery Elementary School
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 5
3.) Alternative Middle School (NEISD)
Incidents of assault against a district employee: 5
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