Denton ISD trustees will get a look at the district's school safety work on Tuesday night, including how far a round of state-required intruder audits has gotten.
As of Oct. 20, review teams had audited 14 of the district's 42 eligible campuses, according to a safety and security presentation posted for the Oct. 27 board meeting. State education law has the Texas Education Agency set up school safety review teams that run these intruder detection audits every year.
In Denton ISD's case the reviews are being carried out by Region 11, the regional education service center, the district's summary says.
The district is not putting campus-by-campus results in public. Any details have been given to trustees in a closed session and will be shared with the district's safety committee at an upcoming meeting, according to the summary, which lists no operational or financial impact.
Officers on campuses
Denton ISD employs 29 school security officers and contracts with seven cities and agencies for 20 school resource officers, the presentation says. A separate agenda document lists Denton, Little Elm, Oak Point and the Denton County Sheriff's Office among the partners supplying officers to Denton ISD campuses in their areas. The city of Aubrey is another.
The district also reports sending its emergency operations plan, along with its plan for reuniting students with families after an emergency, to the Texas School Safety Center on Sept. 30, and finishing its required three-year facility security audit on Sept. 15. The safety committee's next meetings are set for Nov. 5, April 1 and June 10.
Nurses' numbers
A health services update on the same agenda shows the district's 48 campus nurses logged 99,018 office visits last year. In 95,793 of those, or 96.7%, the student went back to class. Nurses saw 24,036 different students, gave 66,398 medications or treatments, and ran 45,570 screenings.
Under Senate Bill 865, known as the Landon Payton Act, districts must have a cardiac emergency response plan, and Denton ISD lists dedicated response teams, drills, CPR practice and AED checks. Campuses have called EMS 36 times this school year for students' and employees' medical needs, the update says.
