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Table 4. Number and percentage of public high schools reporting student threats of physical attack and incidents of robbery that occurred at school, the number of incidents, and the rate of incidents per 1,000 students, by selected school characteristics: School year 2003–04 (Table 4—Continued)
School characteristic | Student threat of physical attack with a weapon1 | Student threat of physical attack without a weapon1 | |||||||
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Num- ber of schools |
Per- cent of schools |
Num- ber of incidents |
Rate per 1,000 students |
Num- ber of schools |
Per- cent of schools |
Num- ber of incidents |
Rate per 1,000 students |
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All public schools | 1,258 | 12 | 4,586 | 0.4 | 7,734 | 71 | 135,937 | 11.7 | |
Enrollment size | |||||||||
Less than 300 | 74 | 5 | 74 | 0.2 | 744 | 46 | 3,153 | 8.6 | |
300–499 | 69 | 4 | 85 | 0.1 | 969 | 62 | 5,933 | 8.8 | |
500–999 | 294 | 11 | 736 | 0.4 | 2,061 | 75 | 31,224 | 14.9 | |
1,000 or more | 822 | 17 | 3,691 | 0.4 | 3,959 | 81 | 95,627 | 11.2 | |
Urbanicity | |||||||||
City | 393 | 17 | 1,512 | 0.4 | 1,704 | 72 | 35,285 | 10.4 | |
Urban fringe | 425 | 12 | 2,087 | 0.4 | 2,774 | 79 | 59,746 | 11.9 | |
Town | 208 | 12 | 603 | 0.5 | 1,245 | 71 | 14,239 | 10.9 | |
Rural | 233 | 7 | 385 | 0.2 | 2,011 | 63 | 26,667 | 13.8 | |
Crime level where students live3 | |||||||||
High | 116 | 21 | 952 | 1.3 | 436 | 78 | 17,145 | 23.5 | |
Moderate | 335 | 15 | 963 | 0.4 | 1,597 | 72 | 30,417 | 11.7 | |
Low | 607 | 9 | 2,104 | 0.3 | 4,573 | 71 | 63,525 | 10.3 | |
Mixed | 201 | 13 | 567 | 0.3 | 1,128 | 71 | 24,850 | 11.6 | |
Percent minority enrollment4 | |||||||||
Less than 5 percent | 172 | 7 | 236 | 0.1 | 1,832 | 72 | 26,480 | 16.7 | |
5 to 20 percent | 393 | 14 | 747 | 0.2 | 2,170 | 77 | 33,422 | 11.0 | |
20 to 50 percent | 199 | 8 | 727 | 0.2 | 1,709 | 68 | 28,178 | 9.2 | |
50 percent or more | 480 | 17 | 2,833 | 0.8 | 1,885 | 68 | 46,506 | 12.5 | |
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch | |||||||||
0–20 percent | 403 | 11 | 1,563 | 0.3 | 2,821 | 75 | 46,772 | 10.1 | |
21–50 percent | 484 | 11 | 1,356 | 0.3 | 3,139 | 70 | 54,564 | 12.1 | |
More than 50 percent | 371 | 15 | 1,667 | 0.7 | 1,774 | 69 | 34,602 | 14.0 | |
Percent of students below 15th percentile on standardized tests | |||||||||
0–5 percent | 239 | 8 | 759 | 0.2 | 2,000 | 68 | 27,646 | 9.1 | |
6–15 percent | 529 | 11 | 1,538 | 0.3 | 3,607 | 75 | 62,690 | 11.9 | |
More than 15 percent | 490 | 16 | 2,290 | 0.7 | 2,127 | 69 | 45,601 | 13.7 | |
Percent of students likely to attend college | |||||||||
0–35 percent | 319 | 15 | 1,382 | 0.7 | 1,377 | 66 | 31,428 | 15.6 | |
36–60 percent | 337 | 10 | 1,076 | 0.3 | 2,245 | 70 | 34,487 | 10.8 | |
More than 60 percent | 602 | 11 | 2,128 | 0.3 | 4,112 | 75 | 70,022 | 10.9 | |
Percent of students who consider academic achievement important | |||||||||
0–25 percent | 126 | 14 | 348 | 0.5 | 623 | 71 | 8,127 | 12.1 | |
26–50 percent | 309 | 14 | 1,549 | 0.7 | 1,511 | 70 | 28,956 | 13.5 | |
51–75 percent | 485 | 14 | 1,063 | 0.3 | 2,469 | 72 | 44,896 | 12.2 | |
More than 75 percent | 338 | 8 | 1,628 | 0.3 | 3,130 | 72 | 53,958 | 10.5 | |
Percent male enrollment | |||||||||
0–44 percent | 145 | 16 | 985 | 1.2 | 535 | 59 | 6,636 | 8.0 | |
45–55 percent | 1,063 | 12 | 3,431 | 0.3 | 6,639 | 73 | 121,698 | 11.9 | |
More than 55 percent | 50 | 6 | 170 | 0.3 | 559 | 64 | 7,603 | 13.7 | |
Student-to-teacher ratio5 | |||||||||
Less than 12 students | 365 | 9 | 587 | 0.2 | 2,819 | 67 | 27,546 | 10.0 | |
12–16 students | 445 | 11 | 2,031 | 0.4 | 3,096 | 76 | 68,194 | 13.8 | |
More than 16 students | 449 | 18 | 1,968 | 0.5 | 1,819 | 71 | 40,197 | 10.2 | |
Number of classroom changes6 | |||||||||
0–3 changes | 33 | 6 | 62 | 0.1 | 306 | 55 | 14,270 | 26.4 | |
4–6 changes | 761 | 15 | 3,513 | 0.6 | 3,932 | 75 | 68,706 | 11.4 | |
More than 6 changes | 465 | 9 | 1,012 | 0.2 | 3,496 | 69 | 52,961 | 10.4 | |
Regular use of law enforcement7 | |||||||||
Regular use | 1,066 | 14 | 4,339 | 0.4 | 5,881 | 76 | 122,641 | 12.1 | |
No regular use | 193 | 6 | 248 | 0.2 | 1,853 | 60 | 13,296 | 8.8 | |
Number of serious discipline problems8 | |||||||||
No problems | 483 | 7 | 1,281 | 0.2 | 4,383 | 65 | 51,471 | 8.1 | |
1 problem | 302 | 18 | 826 | 0.4 | 1,361 | 83 | 29,518 | 15.2 | |
2 problems | 177 | 15 | 361 | 0.2 | 938 | 78 | 14,130 | 9.6 | |
3 or more problems | 297 | 24 | 2,118 | 1.1 | 1,052 | 87 | 40,818 | 21.6 | |
Transfers as a percentage of enrollment9 | |||||||||
0 to 6 percent | 284 | 11 | 685 | 0.3 | 1,830 | 71 | 22,306 | 8.7 | |
6 to 11 percent | 258 | 12 | 1,120 | 0.6 | 1,515 | 70 | 33,859 | 16.8 | |
11 to 21 percent | 384 | 11 | 2,038 | 0.5 | 2,502 | 74 | 42,597 | 11.0 | |
21 percent or more | 333 | 12 | 743 | 0.2 | 1,886 | 70 | 37,175 | 11.6 | |
Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions10 | |||||||||
No disruptions | 942 | 10 | 2,345 | 0.2 | 6,344 | 69 | 109,883 | 11.6 | |
Any disruptions | 317 | 19 | 2,242 | 1.0 | 1,390 | 85 | 26,054 | 12.1 | |
Percent of students absent on a daily basis | |||||||||
0–2 percent | 31 | 5 | 68 | 0.1 | 386 | 58 | 3,819 | 7.5 | |
3–5 percent | 427 | 10 | 766 | 0.2 | 2,791 | 68 | 43,518 | 10.4 | |
6–10 percent | 599 | 12 | 2,633 | 0.5 | 3,727 | 77 | 70,301 | 12.4 | |
More than 10 percent | 202 | 16 | 1,119 | 0.9 | 830 | 66 | 18,299 | 14.7 | |
See notes at end of table. |
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