1) All reports of incidents or accidents involving kindergarten students at Atholton Elementary School for the 2023-2024 school year.
2) All reports of incidents or accidents involving first grade students at Atholton Elementary School for the 2024-2025 school year.
3) A report of the number of incidents or accidents involving kindergarten students at Howard County Public Schools (HCPS) for the 2023-2024 school year and first grade students at HCPS for the 2024-2025 school year.
4) All internal communications and decision-making materials, including emails, memorandums, and internal correspondence between HCPSS administration and leadership, HCPSS principals, teachers, and staff, any HCPSS Board of Education members, HCPSS legal counsel, policy advisors, and any external legal consultants regarding Policy 1040 -- Safe and Supportive Schools.
I request the records in a searchable and analyzable electronic format.
Responsive to this request, data on health room visits are as follows:
# Health Room Visits
2023-24 AES K
365
2024-25 AES 1st
233
2023-24 HCPSS K
11490
2024-25 HCPSS 1st
8004
These counts reflect the number of Health Room Visits entered into our student database as of March 30, 2025, where the reported visit type is “New Injury.” HCPSS has made substantial efforts to ensure the accuracy of this information; however, data collection and reporting is consistently subject to change. Please be mindful when comparing data as many variances can occur between reports based on date pulled, parameters used, categories included, etc.
Responsive to your request number 4, per clarification you are seeking records between January 30, 2001, to October 17, 2019, initially staff found no record of use of external legal consultants on Policy 1040. Based on the revision and modification dates found at the bottom of Policy
1040: https://policy.hcpss.org/1000/1040/, the following public records from Board of Education discussions are available:
• January 30, 2001: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/legacy-content/83NMN24D7E55/$FILE/01-30-01%20Reg%20BOE%20Mtg.pdf (see the bottom of page 14 - Policy 3445 – Violence and School Safety)
• April 12, 2007: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/legacy-content/83NKTT4D3D6A/$FILE/04%2012%2007%20Regular%20Meeting%20Approved.pdf (see the bottom of page 17 - Report of the Review Committee for Policy 3445 [1040] Violence and School Safety)
• November 3, 2011: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/files/8N2LZ5582A01/$file/11%2003%202011%20%20Policies%201000%20Civility%20and%201040%20Safe%20School%20BR.pdf
• June 12, 2014: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/files/9KQLRP52B970/$file/06%2012%202014%20Policy%201040.pdf
• October 17, 2019: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/files/BGTL8B554A62/$file/10%2017%202019%20Policy%201040%20Safe%20and%20Supportive%20Schools%20BR.pdf.