Nearly 3 percent of students, ages 12-18, reported that they were the victims of crime at school in the previous six months, according to results from a 2015 survey. During school year 2014-15, these students reported being bullied at school at more than twice the rate (51.1 percent) of the students who reported not being victims of crime (20.0 percent). Source: “Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results From the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey” (NCES 2018106; Page 10)
This Statistics in Brief report uses data collected in the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which is co-designed by NCES and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
