Two separate incidents involving a reported threat and a threatening gesture made by a student led to investigations at two Hollywood Schools.
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Hollywood Hills High School was placed on secure status Thursday while Hollywood Police investigated a reported threat, Broward County Public Schools officials said.
The school was operating on its normal schedule, and students and staff were safe, officials said.
A separate investigation was happening at Hollywood Central Preparatory K-8.
District officials said on Wednesday, while the school was notifying parents of two students involved in a dispute, one parent reported information about a possible verbal threat made toward her child.
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The allegation was immediately investigated by school administrators and law enforcement, and it was determined that no verbal threat had been made but that the student in question had made a threatening gesture toward the other student, officials said.
The student responsible is receiving appropriate school disciplinary consequences.
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