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

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Table 11.1.

Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported being targets of hate-related words at school during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2005


Student or school
characteristic
Total Made fun of,
called names,
or insulted
Subject of
rumors
Threatened with harm Pushed, shoved, tripped,
spit on
Tried to make do things did not want
to do
Excluded from activities on purpose Property destroyed on purpose
                 
Total 28.1 18.7 14.7 4.8 9.0 3.5 4.6 3.4
                 
Sex                
Male 27.1 18.5 11.0 5.2 10.9 3.9 4.1 3.5
Female 29.2 19.0 18.5 4.4 7.1 3.1 5.2 3.3
                 
Race/ethnicity1                
White 30.0 20.1 15.8 5.1 9.7 3.6 5.3 3.4
Black 28.5 18.5 14.2 4.9 8.9 4.7 4.5 4.6
Hispanic 22.3 14.7 12.4 4.6 7.6 2.6 3.0 2.7
Other 24.6 16.3 11.6 2.1 6.8 2.1! 2.5! 2.5!
                 
Grade                
6th 36.6 26.3 16.4 6.4 15.1 4.4 7.4 3.9
7th 35.0 25.2 18.9 6.3 15.4 4.7 7.1 4.6
8th 30.4 20.4 14.3 4.3 11.3 3.8 5.4 4.5
9th 28.1 18.9 13.8 5.3 8.2 3.2 3.8 2.7
10th 24.9 15.5 13.6 4.9 6.8 3.6 3.6 2.9
11th 23.0 14.7 13.4 3.2 4.2 2.8 3.3 2.6
12th 19.9 11.3 12.5 3.5 2.9 1.8 2.2! 2.4
                 
Urbanicity                
Urban 26.0 17.7 13.3 5.5 8.5 4.1 4.9 3.9
Suburban 28.9 18.9 14.6 4.4 9.0 3.1 4.5 3.0
Rural 29.0 19.8 17.2 5.0 9.9 3.7 4.5 3.8
                 
Sector              
Public 28.6 19.0 14.9 5.1 9.3 3.5 4.5 3.5
Private 22.7 15.3 12.4 0.9! 5.5 3.0! 6.2 2.0!
! Interpret data with caution.
1 Other includes American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, and more than one race. For this report, non-Hispanic students who identified themselves as more than one race were included in the Other category. Respondents who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin are classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race.
NOTE: "At school" includes the school building, on school property, on a school bus, or going to and from school. Bullying types do not sum to total because students could have experienced more than one type of bullying. In 2005, the unit response rate for this survey did not meet NCES statistical standards; therefore, interpret the data with caution. For more information, please see appendix A. Population size for students ages 12–18 is 25,811,000 in 2005.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2005.