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Student Restraint Report

State regulations broadly define restraint as restriction of students' freedom of movement. The definition does not include a brief physical contact to promote student safety or redirect or physical escort. For more information, please see 603 CMR 46.02.

The Student Restraint Report begins with the 2016-17 school year (July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017). (The reporting requirements were different prior to January 1, 2016, when the new restraint regulations went into effect.) The 2016-17 school year was the start of a new data collection system for this report.

Data in this report are suppressed (dash in the cells) when:

• Fewer than 6 students were restrained.
• The number of injuries to staff or students is between 1 and 5.

As DESE does not collect enrollment data for collaboratives or approved special education schools, blank cells appear in their enrollment column. Schools are not listed here if they or their district on their behalf certified to the Department that they did not have any restraints. District-level data are not available for this report at this time.

The schools included in this report consist of public schools, public school collaboratives, and approved day and residential special education schools. These categories serve different student populations, and some may have notably longer school years, which could explain variations in the reported data. Additional factors contributing to differences in restraint rates include the age range and the specific health and safety needs of the students served. Due to these variations, the data provided do not support comparisons between the schools.