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Statistics on 'Serious' Incidents at Amity Schools

Statistics from the state Department of Education suggest schools in Connecticut have gotten safer since 2005.


As local, state and federal officials deliberate what's needed to make schools safer following last month's massacre in Newtown, statistics from the Connecticut Department of Education show a decline in "serious" incidents taking place on school grounds over a five-year period.

The number of what the department termed "serious" incidents — involving weapons, violence, threatening behavior and other categories — decreased from 50,347 in school year 2005-06 to 43,236 in school year 2010-11, the most recent year for which data is available, the CT Mirror reports.

The decrease represents a 14 percent drop.

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Citing the state's figures, the Mirror reported that during the 2010-11 school year there were:

  • 14,049 fighting/battery incidents at Connecticut district schools
  • 13,886 physical/verbal confrontation/conduct unbecoming incidents
  • 1,203 incidents involving a weapon

In Region 5, Amity, the stats are:

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  • 1 incident involving a weapon
  • 2 incidents involving sexually-related behavior
  • 13 incident of physical/verbal confrontation/conduct unbecoming
  • 10 incidents of personally threatening behavior
  • 17 incidents involving fighting/battery

Bethany also had stats (there were none for Woodbridge):

  • 1 incident involving sexually-related behavior
  • 3 incidents of personally threatening behavior

A PDF of the state's statistics is included in the photo gallery that accompanies this article.


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