Hartselle City Schools continue to show improvement in student behavior, according to state-mandated accountability reports that track financial stability, student achievement, school safety and discipline.

The 2010-11 accountability report on incidents of student misbehavior shows that all five schools combined reported 320 incidents, or 19 fewer that the 339 reported in the prior fiscal year. The current figure reflects a decline of 139 incidents since 2008-09.

Hartselle High School replaced Hartselle Junior High as the school having the largest number of incidents. It reported 156 incidents as compared to 103 in the prior year. The current number still compares favorably with the 171 incidents that were reported in fiscal 2008-09.

Incident reports at Hartselle Junior High totaled 132, or 54 fewer than the number reported the year before. The school disciplined 86 students for misbehavior in 2010-11 and 237 in the prior year.

The city’s three elementary schools combined had 32 incidents. Of that number, Crestline had 23, or 11 fewer than the 34 it reported in the prior year. F.E. Burleson reported six, or eight fewer than the 14 it reported in 2009-10 and Barkley Bridge reported three, or one more than the number it reported in 2009-10.

Of the incidents reported, 71 were for disobedience followed by 57 for defiance of authority, 42 for harassment, 24 for unauthorized truancy, 21 for profanity or vulgarity and 17 for fighting.

Eight of the incidents involved fighting, five each were for tobacco possession and use, four each for drugs possession and threats/intimidation, three each for weapons possession and larceny/theft, and two each for alcohol possession and criminal mischief.

Disciplinary actions resulting from the incidents were: 246 in-school suspensions, 57 outside school suspensions, 15 alternative school and six corporal punishments.

The state’s Accountability Law requires that copies of the annual accountability report be made available to the public.