I chose to focus my stats on arrests because those are incidents where most people would agree the alleged offender did something wrong. It is also important to know that "arrest" does not necessarily mean "student being walked out in handcuffs." Even a citation is considered an arrest.
I worked the ratios to allow for a better comparison between unlike school districts. This way they're all being judged on the same scale.
It's interesting to note that some potentially stereotypical beliefs don't hold true. For example, one might think an urban school district would have a higher ratio of student arrests. That's not necessarily the case. Lancaster City's ratio is one student out of every 398 getting arrested. That's with 11,000+ students. But Bermudian Springs is more rural, has fewer students (2126) yet has a comparable (and slightly worse) ratio of 1:354. What does that mean? It's hard to say. But I think it's interesting.
The most recent school year with stats available is 2004-2005. You can search for data in previous years and actually set up some pretty cool comparisons between years, school districts, etc.
Here's the link:
http://www.safeschools.state.pa.us/mod/HistoricReports/2005/files/reports_frame.htm
I'm not sure if you can just click on it, or if you will need to copy and paste it into the address line.
When you reach the site, look to the left. There, under the title "Report List" you will see links to search by county, school district, school, etc.
Student Arrest Ratios:
Adams County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Bermudian Springs SD 2126 6 1:354
Conewago Valley SD 3752 9 1:417
Fairfield Area SD 1306 5 1:261
Gettysburg Area SD 3302 39 1:85
Littlestown SD 2067 33 1:63
Upper Adams SD 1800 27 1:67
Cumberland County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Big Spring SD 3143 77 1:41
Camp Hill SD 1121 7 1:160
Carlisle SD 4804 11 1:437
Cumberland Valley SD 7694 2 1:3847
East Pennsboro SD 2829 44 1:64
Mechanicsburg SD 3539 25 1:142
Shippensburg SD 3299 33 1:100
South Middleton SD 2180 7 1:311
Dauphin County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Central Dauphin SD 11108 182 1:61
Derry Township SD 3464 38 1:91
Halifax SD 1245 3 1:415
Harrisburg SD 8312 0 None
Lower Dauphin SD 3896 10 1:390
Middletown SD 2469 26 1:95
Millersburg SD 900 7 1:129
Steelton-Highspire SD 1341 99 1:14
Susquehanna Township SD 3148 34 1:93
Upper Dauphin SD 1308 8 1:163
Franklin County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Chambersburg SD 7898 130 1:61
Fannett Metal SD 614 2 1:307
Greencastle Antrim SD 2787 16 1:174
Tuscarora SD 2651 12 1:221
Waynesboro SD 4124 74 1:56
Lancaster County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Cocalico SD 3606 29 1:124
Columbia Borough SD 1461 28 1:52
Conestoga Valley SD 3921 22 1:178
Donegal SD 2693 10 1:269
Eastern Lancaster County SD 3469 5 1:694
Elizabethtown SD 3963 12 1:330
Ephrata SD 3995 29 1:138
Hempfield SD 7261 6 1:1210
Lampeter Strasburg SD 3223 15 1:215
Lancaster SD 11134 28 1:398
Manheim Central SD 3138 0 None
Manheim Township SD 5417 28 1:193
Penn Manor SD 5406 8 1:678
Pequea Valley SD 1937 0 None
Solanco SD 3940 16 1:246
Warwick SD 4576 23 1:199
Lebanon County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Annville Cleona SD 1703 6 1:284
Cornwall Lebanon SD 4770 0 None
Eastern Lebanon County SD 2436 4 1:609
Lebanon SD 4299 29 1:148
Northern Lebanon SD 2486 25 1:99
Palmyra SD 3007 28 1:107
Perry County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Greenwood SD 859 0 None
Newport SD 1256 5 1:251
Susquenita SD 2222 27 1:82
West Perry SD 2847 7 1:407
York County Enrollment Arrests Ratio
Central York SD 4868 9 1:541
Dallastown SD 5455 44 1:124
Dover SD 3531 54 1:65
Eastern York SD 2659 1 1:2659
Hanover Public SD 1668 10 1:167
Northeastern York SD 3215 23 1:140
Northern York County SD 3221 0 None
Red Lion SD 5620 14 1:401
South Eastern SD 3284 20 1:164
South Western SD 4035 37 1:109
Southern York County SD 3285 4 1:821
Spring Grove Area SD 3855 2 1:1927
West Shore SD 8226 71 1:116
West York Area SD 3146 6 1:524
York City SD 6617 90 1:74
York Suburban SD 2704 0 None
