HCPSS MPIA Request #2026-015

Requestor
Ryan Powers
Requested Information
1) Following up on request 2025-133 (https://mpia.hcpss.org/requests/2025-133), I am seeking to extend the data request of the information from August 20th, 2024 to June 25th, 2025.

I am requesting Disciplinary Referral Forms for the past school year (SY24-25 August 2024-June 25, 2025) for Triadelphia Ridge Elementary, Fulton Elementary, Hanover Hills Elementary, and Thunder Hill Elementary. Please include:

• Date of Incident
• Staff Member / Referrer
• MSDE Category
• Behavior-related offense / Violation
• Assigned intervention and consequence, including no consequence (Disciplinary Action)

Please provide data on all office referrals that have been submitted, and not merely ones that resulted in a consequence.

2) As an extension to the previous request 2025-111(https://mpia.hcpss.org/requests/2025-111), I am requesting reports of student, staff, or teacher injuries occurring at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School for the past school year (August 20th, 2024-June 25th, 2025). This request includes student, staff, or teacher visits to Concentra or other medical clinics. If allowed under law, I am requesting the cause, nature, and extent of the injury.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes

Responsive to your second request, in regard to staff injuries, worker’s compensation data on TRES staff who sought medical treatment (regardless of location where treatment was sought) for incidents that involved students similar to MPIA 2025-111 for school year 2024-2025 total five (5). Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, as well as both under MPIA GP § 4-311, which prevents disclosure of personnel records of an individual, and MPIA GP § 4-329 (b), which prevents disclosure of medical or psychological information about an individual person, we are unable to disclose further details regarding the cause, nature and extent of injuries.

Additionally, in regard to student injuries, no data indicates the total number of students assaulted (victims) given one incident may involve more than one victim. Existing data on counts of student conduct violations for “attack on student” at TRES similar to MPIA 2025-111, however, for the full school year 2024-2025 total fourteen (14).

Responsive Documents
Responsive to your first request, please find attached data from an available summary report on office disciplinary reports for the full school year 2024-2025 from the elementary schools specified. Please note, this report only reflects those referrals for which a student violation was identified. No existing report identifies those office referrals submitted but ultimately not resulting in consequence as those are returned to the staff member without tracking. When comparing year over year referrals to prior reports, school closures during the pandemic will impact the numbers used. It should also be noted that changes to the HCPSS student code of conduct went into effect July 1, 2023 (between SY23 and SY24) that will have an impact on the volume of referrals. Specifically, office disciplinary reports were not used for attendance violations as of SY23-24, whereas previous years did include them.

HCPSS must protect against the potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students as required by both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students. In accordance, given this report contains information on an incident-specific level about individual student discipline, the inclusion of incident date for an elementary school has the potential to reveal educational records given the connection to a specific staff member/classroom. As such, we have included this data point on a separate sheet. Please note, there could be multiple violations of the code of conduct represented in a single student incident/referral, therefore entries represent each violation. For example, TRES has 54 total lines (violations) in the attached chart, however this represents 28 unique incidents as noted in the totals box. 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.

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