In Virginia, a “persistently dangerous school” is one that exceeds a threshold of offense incidents over a three-year period as established by the Virginia Board of Education’s Persistently Dangerous Schools Identification Process and Criteria is located in “” in year 2004, as adm051 memo. A school that exceeds its established threshold for three consecutive years is designated as a “persistently dangerous school.” In year one, the school is in “caution” status and in year two the school is “on probation.” Schools must develop corrective action plans and are subject to graduated interventions. Each receiving funds under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act 2015 is required to establish and implement a statewide policy requiring a student attending a persistently dangerous school be allowed to attend a safe school. In May 2002, the Virginia Board of Education’s “Unsafe School Choice Option” policy was adopted. Virginia’s “Unsafe School Choice Option” policy can be accessed on the Virginia Department of Education Criteria is located in “” in year 2003, as inf086 memo. OVERVIEW OF ALL INCIDENTS This report focuses on the DCV data reported for the 2016-2017 school year and includes information submitted to the VDOE by all school divisions. In the school year 2016-2017, there were 147,155 incidents reported. The incidents of defiance, classroom/campus disruption, disruptive demonstrations, obscene language/gestures, minor physical altercations, and disrespect combined accounted for 61.15 percent of all incidents in 2016-2017. The most frequently reported incidents were defiance 20,576, classroom/campus disruption 17,746, disruptive demonstrations 16,025, minor physical altercation 14,327, using obscene inappropriate language/gestures 11,119, and disrespect/walking away 10,198. Due to the personally identifiable nature of the information represented in this report, numbers ten (10) and less are suppressed with the use of an asterisk (*). This includes all data including student counts, outcome counts, and incident count.
Other School Code of Conduct Violation Not Covered in These Codes S3V 4,133 2.76 4,105 2.79 Harassment HR1 3,695 2.47 3,983 2.71 Assault Against Student/No Weapon BA4 2,897 1.94 2,834 1.93 Tobacco TB1 3,146 2.1 2,616 1.78 Bullying BU1 2,694 1.8 2,540 1.73 Assault/Battery against student without injury BA6 1,153 0.77 2,255 1.53 Cellular Telephones C2M 2,780 1.86 2,129 1.45 Offenses (except motor vehicles) TH1 2,357 1.57 2,040 1.39 Threatening Staff Member (physical/verbal thread) TI1 1,782 1.19 1,829 1.24 Drug Possession/Use of Schedule I and II drugs DR1 1,860 1.24 1,819 1.24 Attendance A1T 1,714 1.14 1,498 1.02 Offensive Sexual Touching Against Student SX2 1,008 0.67 1,150 0.78 Vandalism VA1 950 0.63 1,124 0.76 Assault Against No Weapon BA2 1063 0.71 1,093 0.74 Sexual Harassment SX0 773 0.52 829 0.56 Drug Violations Schedule III-VI Poss./Sale/Dist./ Paraphernalia DR5 740 0.49 739 0.5 Alcohol AL1 740 0.49 678 0.46 Bringing a Knife to School/School Event (more than 3 inches) WP5 684 0.46 667 0.45 Bringing Blades/Box Cutters/Knife less than 3 inches to School/ Event W8P 479 0.32 554 0.38 Misrepresentation (altering false information, cheating, etc.) S2V 655 0.44 494 0.34
Table 4. Most Frequently Reported Offenses Resulting in Short-Term Suspensions, Offenses Offense Codes Counts Percent of all 148,678 Suspensions Defiance of Authority/Insubordination D2C 14.23 Classroom or Campus Disruption D5C 18806 12.65 Minor Physical Altercation F1T 11.54 Disruptive Demonstrations D3C 16591 11.16 Fighting: Mutual Contact--No/Minor Injuries, No Med Attention FA2 8.76 Using Obscene/Inappropriate Language/Gestures D6C 11540 7.76 Disrespect/Walking Away D1C 10360 6.97 Minor Insubordination D8C 4780 3.22 School Code of Conduct Violation Not Covered in These Codes S3V 4247 2.86 Threatening Student (physical or verbal threat or intimidation) TI2 2793 1.88 Assault Against Student/No Weapon BA4 2210 1.49 Theft Offenses (except motor vehicles) TH1 2173 1.46 Chart 4. The twelve most frequently reported offenses that resulted in short-term suspensions make up 84 percent of all short-term suspensions. Table 5. Most Frequently Reported Offenses Resulting in Long-Term Suspensions, Offenses Offense Counts Percent of all 4,187 Long-Term Suspensions Assault Against Student/No Weapon BA4 424 10.13 Disruptive Demonstrations D3C 402 9.6 Defiance of Authority/Insubordination D2C 247 5.9 Threatening Staff Member (physical/verbal threat) TI1 243 5.8 Threatening Student (physical or verbal threat or intimidation) TI2 217 5.18 Classroom or Campus Disruption D5C 198 4.73 Other School Code of Conduct Violation Not Covered in These Codes S3V 179 4.28
Fighting: Mutual Contact--No/Minor Injuries, No Med Attention FA2 177 4.23 Assault Against Staff: No Weapon BA2 172 4.11 Drug Possession/Use of Schedule I and II drugs DR1 151 3.61 Bringing a to School/School Event (more than 3 inches) WP5 150 3.58 Using Obscene/Inappropriate Language/Gestures D6C 101 2.41 Disrespect/Walking Away D1C 99 2.36 Drug Violations Schedule III-VI Poss./Sale/Dist./ Paraphernalia DR5 98 2.34 Chart 5. Fifteen most frequently reported offenses that resulted in long-term suspensions. Table 6. Most Frequently Reported Offenses Resulting in Expulsions 2016-2017 Offenses Offense Codes Counts Percent of all 302 Expulsions Drug Possession/Use of Schedule I and II drugs DR1 37 12.25 Drug Violations Schedule III-VI Poss./Sale/Dist./ Paraphernalia DR5 27 8.94 Assault Against Staff: No Weapon BA2 23 7.62 Threatening Staff Member (physical/verbal threat) TI1 23 7.62 Drug Violations Schedule I and II Anabolic Steroid, Marijuana--Sale/Dist. DR4 17 5.63 Threatening Student (physical or verbal threat or intimidation) TI2 17 5.63 Bringing a Handgun to School/School Event WP1 15 4.97 Possession of a BB gun WP0 12 3.97 Arson AR1 * * Assault Against Student/No Weapon BA4 * * Classroom or Campus Disruption D5C * * Bringing a Knife to School/School Event (more than 3 inches) WP5 * * Vandalism VA1 * *