Locked Away: See Which Ohio Schools Use Seclusion Rooms

Schools across Ohio, in rural, suburban and urban areas, use seclusion rooms.

The Columbus Dispatch and StateImpact Ohio surveyed 100 Ohio school districts, charter schools and educational service centers on the use of seclusion rooms in their buildings.

We found 39 of those 100 districts used seclusion rooms.

Only thirteen had policies governing their use.

Use this table to find out where your district stands.

Ohio School Seclusion Rooms

How to use this table:

• Look up a district, charter school or educational service center below by typing their name into the search box.
• Look up all the districts in a county by typing the county name into the search box.
• Click on the column headings to sort by category,
• (Is your district not one of the ones we surveyed? Here’s how you can find out for yourself if a district uses seclusion rooms.)

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Source: School district records | Download Data | About the Data

Note, Aug. 8: After this post was published, we received records requested from the Perkins Local school district. Perkins has a single seclusion room which is currently only used for one student with autism. The student is never physically forced into the room, according to the district’s superintendent. Perkins does not have a specific policy on the use of seclusion rooms.

Based on reporting by Jennifer Smith Richards of The Columbus Dispatch and Ida Lieszkovszky and Molly Bloom of StateImpact Ohio.