How many sex assaults, other incidents in metro Atlanta schools?

Gwinnett County's district attorney in taking a look at an alleged sexual assault in a Gwinnett County school that happened last year.

The school system investigated and held a hearing, then suspended both teens involved as a consensual incident, thought the girl claimed it was an assault.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gathered up statistics from the 2012-2015 school years and put them into a database for our readers.

You can find out what kinds of incidents took place, from sexual incidents to bullying and weapons seized, here on ajc.com.

You can also find key information, including school climate ratings, on our new tool we created for readers, the new AJC Ultimate Atlanta School Guide.

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