Student Safety & Well-Being
Newport
Student safety and well-being are essential foundations for learning. Students are more likely to succeed academically when they feel respected, cared for, and connected to the adults and peers in their school.
A positive school environment is one where students believe that they belong, that their voices matter, and that they can speak up when they have a concern or need help. When students trust that teachers and staff will listen to them and respond fairly, they are better able to focus on learning, participate in class, and build positive relationships with others. The indicators in this section are designed to measure how students experience safety and well-being in their school. Rather than focusing only on physical safety, these indicators examine whether students feel emotionally safe, valued, and supported and how anti-bias policies are implemented in Newport schools. Research consistently shows that students who feel connected to their school have better attendance, higher academic achievement, improved mental health, and are less likely to engage in risky behaviors.
The Newport Community Research Team identified 4 measures focused on Student Safety and Well-Being:
| Number | Indicator |
|---|---|
| 1 | Frequency and reason for complaints against teachers/staff/administrators, broken down by school. | 2 | Ways anti-bias policies are implemented at each school, including the procedures for identifying, reporting, and addressing instances of bias, and communicating the policy with students, staff, and families. |
| 3 | Percentage of students who think teachers respect students, broken down by race, gender, grade level, disability. |
| 4 | Students who feel they will be taken seriously by their school community when they have a problem |
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Currently, the active indicator links represent data that is publicly available (i.e., enrollment data and SurveyWorks climate survey). However, in many cases, our community-identified indicators differ from those that are publicly available. We are working to request data that the school district collects but is not yet made public. As new data and visualizations are ready, we will add them to the SCOREcard.
Additionally, some of what community members have asked to be measured in the SCOREcard is, to the best of our knowledge, not currently being collected In these cases, this SCOREcard represents a call to action for the school system, in partnership with community organizations, to collect data in areas that matter to the community, and to make it publicly accessible. As we get access to more data, more indicators will be populated and our SCOREcard will be stronger.