Here’s how many fights every Muscogee County school reported in 2015-16
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week that, based on the Georgia Department of Education’s discipline data for the 2015-16 school year, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary had 226 fights, the fifth-most out of the state’s 2,272 public schools. And when measuring the number of fights per 100 students, MLK ranked sixth in Georgia with 37.
Click here to see the nine other schools in Georgia with the most fights.
The AJC didn’t rank the rest of the state’s schools by number of fights per 100 students beyond the top 10, but here are the total number of fights for each school in the Muscogee County School District, according to the 2015-16 school year data.
Elementary schools
1. Martin Luther King Jr.: 226
2. Rigdon Road: 178
3. Waddell: 91
4. Davis: 66
5. South Columbus: 49
6. Dawson: 47
7. Brewer: 43
8. Lonnie Jackson: 42
9. Allen: 41
10. Dimon: 40
11. St. Marys Road: 39
12. Key: 37
13. Dorothy Height: 35 (tie)
13. Downtown: 35 (tie)
15. Fox: 32
16. Wynnton: 25
17. Wesley Heights: 22
18. Georgetown: 21
19. Forrest Road: 20
20. Hannan: 19
21. Gentian: 12
22. River Road: 11
23. Reese Road: 9
24. Blanchard: 3 (tie)
24. Clubview: 3 (tie)
24. North Columbus: 3 (tie)
27. Double Churches: 2 (tie)
27. Eagle Ridge: 2 (tie)
27. Johnson: 2 (tie)
27. Midland: 2 (tie)
31. Mathews: 1
32. Britt David: 0
Middle schools
1. East Columbus: 169
2. Rothschild: 159
3. Arnold: 145
4. Baker: 138
5. Eddy: 94
6. Richards: 90
7. Double Churches: 45
8. Midland: 35
9. Aaron Cohn: 32
10. Veterans: 22
11. Blackmon Road: 7
12. Fort: 4
High schools
1. Jordan: 79
2. Carver: 67
3. Kendrick: 62
4. Spencer: 35
5. Northside: 30
6. Shaw: 20
7. Hardaway: 14
8. Columbus: 2 (tie)
8. Early College: 2 (tie)
Note: The discipline data for the 2016-17 school year won’t be available until July or August at the earliest, GaDOE interim communications director Meghan Frick told the L-E.
Mark Rice: 706-576-6272, @markricele
This story was originally published June 15, 2017 at 1:22 PM with the headline "Here’s how many fights every Muscogee County school reported in 2015-16."