Columbus school among 10 in Georgia with most fights

A Columbus school is among the 10 public schools in Georgia with the highest number of fights, according to the most recent data available.

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 how many fights were reported at each school in the Muscogee County School District.

The school with the most reported fights in Georgia was Forrest Hills Academy in Fulton County with 74 incidents per 100 students.

In all, four schools in the top 10 were from the Atlanta area. In addition to Forrest Hills Academy, they are Woodland Middle School (46), also from Fulton County, and DeKalb Alternative School (31) and Columbia Middle School from DeKalb County (31).

Three of the schools are from Augusta and Richmond County: Glenn Hills Middle School (41), Meadowbrook Elementary School (38) and Glenn Hills Elementary School (31).

Other schools with the 10 most fights in Georgia schools per 100 students were Harpst Academy in Cedartown (40) and Berta Weathersbee Elementary School in LaGrange (35).

This story was originally published June 15, 2017 at 1:20 PM with the headline "Columbus school among 10 in Georgia with most fights."