Here in IL it's "battery" by ILCS(IL Compiled Statutes) and punishable by up to one year in jail. "Assault" would be the threat, "I'll kick your fxxxing axx".
I'm pretty sure here at our HS that offender would have been arrested and had a nice 5 day(or more) suspension.
If the student has a history (3 or more physical altercations in a certain time frame coupled with nature of offense) they could be up for expulsion...
While it does happen and I deal with it here at work weekly at the most, I still can't wrap my head around the random-ness of the act.
Poor Parenting comes to mind...
Edit - We also take into consideration all the things Richard mentioned is his post. Especially;
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There may also be more to the incident of which we are unaware - extenuating and mitigating circumstances found in the investigation but not open for discussion as they are part of the privacy policies common with official school records.
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Thanks Richard!