A student was reportedly stabbed on Wednesday at a Dallas ISD campus and taken to a local hospital.
“This afternoon, we initiated our safety protocol after a student received superficial wounds during an on-campus altercation involving a small knife,” said Chandra Hooper-Barnett, principal of Woodrow Wilson High School, in a message to parents, per WFAA.
“Emergency services immediately responded, and the student was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The other student was taken into custody off campus and will be disciplined according to the Student Code of Conduct,” she said. “As a precaution, police presence remained on site.”
The “altercation,” which reportedly involved a pocket knife, occurred in one of the school’s bathrooms, and the student who was injured was taken to Baylor University Medical Center, according to WFAA.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas ISD has seen its share of on-campus violence in recent years. The district saw two shootings in as many years, prompting officials to boost its security efforts earlier this year despite initially claiming it could not comply with a state law requiring at least one armed peace officer to be stationed at each campus.
Previous polling conducted by DX shows that a plurality of respondents feel the district — the second largest in the Lone Star State — suffers from mismanagement.
According to the latest accountability report from the Texas Education Agency, only 41% of Dallas ISD students scored at grade level on the STAAR exams during the 2021-2022 school year, while almost 20% of the district’s graduating Class of 2022 did not obtain a diploma within four years.