How safe is your child’s school? See the latest NC crime and suspension numbers.
The latest crime and student suspension figures are now out for every North Carolina public school.
Data released by the State Board of Education showed an 7.4% decrease in acts of school crime and violence between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years. There was also a 1.1% decrease in the number of short-term suspensions during that time period.
Despite the dip, school crime and suspensions are significantly above pre-pandemic levels.
Assaults on Wake school staff more than doubled
Wake County reported a 15.1% decrease in school crime. But the number of assaults on school personnel more than doubled from 88 in the 2022-23 school year to 204 last school year.
Possession of a controlled substance dropped by 27% and possession of a weapon that’s not a firearm dropped by 16%. Possession of a controlled substance accounted for 45% of school crimes in Wake.
Possession of a firearm dropped from 18 to eight cases. More than one person can be recorded in an incident involving a single gun.
Sexual assaults dropped from 28 to nine cases.
Wake had one death by non-natural causes recorded in the state’s schools in the 2023-24 school year. In November 2023, a Southeast Raleigh High School was fatally stabbed in the school’s gym. A classmate has been charged with murder.
Wake issued 12,763 short-term suspensions — a 3.3% drop from the prior school year. Short-term suspensions put students out of school for up to 10 days.
Crime, suspensions at Triangle school districts
The other Triangle school districts largely mirrored the state trends on crime and suspensions in the 2023-24 school year.
▪ Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools saw a 19.7% drop in school crime and a 9% drop in short-term suspensions.
▪ Chatham County saw a 29.9% drop in school crime and a 13.9% decrease in short-term suspensions.
▪ Durham Public Schools saw a 10.4% decrease in school crime and a 13.9% drop in short-term suspensions.
▪ Johnston County saw a 48.9% decrease in school crime. It was the only Triangle district to see an increase in short-term suspensions with a 4.9% jump.
▪ Orange County saw a 3.9% drop in school crime and a 12.1% decrease in short-term suspensions.
How did my child’s school do? Look in this searchable database
Use the searchable databases below to look up the 2023-24 school crime and suspension stats for individual North Carolina public schools.
Go to http://tinyurl.com/36auuyjb to view school crime and discipline reports dating back to the 2007-08 school year.
