Caring School Community: Student Behavior

Scientific Basis  |  Research Results  |  Core Principles  |  Recognition
Academic Performance  |  Student Behavior

Under a large third-party federal grant, 40 schools in the Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis, Missouri, were randomly assigned to four groups of ten schools each—three groups of schools implemented CSC, and the fourth group served as a control. The three groups of CSC schools began implementing CSC in successive years—the first group in 2002–03, the second group in 2003–04, and the third group in 2004–05.

Over the course of two years, student behavior referrals for bullying, aggressive, fighting, vandalism, insolence, and cheating dropped significantly in CSC schools compared with control schools. The chart below shows that referrals in CSC schools declined from an average of 237 to 189 annually per school, while in control schools referrals per school rose from an average of 180 annually to 268.

St. Louis, MO

Referrals Decrease