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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007
NCES 2008-021
December 2007

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Table 9.2.

Percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported that drugs were made available to them on school property during the previous 12 months, by state: 2003 and 2005


State 2003 2005   State 2003 2005
             
United States 28.7 25.4        
             
Alabama 26.0 26.2   Montana 26.9 25.3
Alaska 28.4   Nebraska 23.3 22.0
Arizona 28.1 38.8   Nevada 34.5 32.6
Arkansas 29.2   New Hampshire 28.2 26.9
California   New Jersey 32.6
Colorado 21.2   New Mexico 33.5
Connecticut 31.5   New York 23.0 23.7
Delaware 27.9 26.2   North Carolina 31.9 27.4
District of Columbia 30.2 20.3   North Dakota 21.3 19.6
Florida 25.7 23.2   Ohio 31.1 30.9
Georgia 33.3 30.7   Oklahoma 22.2 18.5
Hawaii 32.7   Oregon
Idaho 19.6 24.8   Pennsylvania
Illinois   Rhode Island 26.0 24.1
Indiana 28.3 28.9   South Carolina 29.1
Iowa 15.5   South Dakota 22.1 20.9
Kansas 16.7   Tennessee 24.3 26.6
Kentucky 30.4 19.8   Texas 30.7
Louisiana   Utah 24.7 20.6
Maine 32.6 33.5   Vermont 29.4 23.1
Maryland 28.9   Virginia
Massachusetts 31.9 29.9   Washington
Michigan 31.3 28.8   West Virginia 26.5 24.8
Minnesota   Wisconsin 26.3 21.7
Mississippi 22.3   Wyoming 18.1 22.7
Missouri 21.6 18.2        
— Not available.
NOTE: "On school property" was not defined for survey respondents. The estimate for the United States is drawn from a nationally representative sample of schools and is not the aggregate of participating states. Each state estimate is based on a sample that is representative of that state. Population sizes from the Digest of Education Statistics, 2005 (NCES 2006-030) for students in grades 9–12 are 15,723,000 in 2003 and 16,286,000 (projected) in 2005.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), previously unpublished tabulation, 2003 and 2005.