Table 8. Number and percentage of public secondary schools reporting violent and other incidents of hate crimes with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999

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Table 8. Number and percentage of public secondary schools reporting violent and other incidents of hate crimes with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999–2000

School characteristic	Violent incidents¹			Serious violent incidents ²			Theft³			Other incidents⁴
School characteristic	Number of schools	Percent of schools	Number of inci- dents	Number of schools	Percent of schools	Number of inci- dents	Number of schools	Percent of schools	Number of inci- dents	Number of schools	Percent of schools	Number of inci- dents
All public secondary schools	723	6	2,095	148	1	226	125	1	208	372	3	621

Enrollment size
Less than 300	#	#	#	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
300–499	133	7	148	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	90	5	157
500–999	132	4	162	‡	‡	‡	60	2	124	99	3	147
1,000 or more	459	9	1,786	108	2	186	‡	‡	‡	175	4	308

Urbanicity
City	201	9	887	49	2	119	63	3	146	105	4	151
Urban fringe	278	7	703	51	1	51	#	#	#	89	2	128
Town	83	5	156	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	72	4	141
Rural	161	4	350	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	106	3	202

Crime level where students live⁵
High	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡
Moderate	163	9	585	49	3	69	‡	‡	‡	84	4	122
Low	411	5	1,009	61	1	61	74	1	74	199	2	313
Mixed	140	9	492	37	3	95	‡	‡	‡	76	5	160

Percent minority enrollment⁵
0–5 percent	142	4	273	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	115	3	144
6–20 percent	178	6	821	25	1	25	‡	‡	‡	95	3	208
21–50 percent	221	9	309	45	2	65	#	#	#	66	3	137
More than 50 percent	182	7	691	53	2	102	63	2	146	96	4	132

Percent of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch
0–20 percent	307	6	754	61	1	81	‡	‡	‡	114	2	179
21–50 percent	300	6	785	56	1	64	‡	‡	‡	186	4	346
More than 50 percent	117	5	556	‡	‡	‡	85	4	169	73	3	97

Percent of students below 15^th percentile on standardized tests
0–5 percent	174	5	579	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	63	2	83
6–15 percent	318	6	857	83	2	141	‡	‡	‡	142	3	253
More than 15 percent	231	8	659	46	2	66	‡	‡	‡	167	6	285

Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	134	5	618	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	86	3	134
36–60 percent	229	6	531	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	86	2	123
More than 60 percent	361	7	946	102	2	114	39	1	39	200	4	365

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important
0–25 percent	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡
26–50 percent	148	6	408	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	113	5	141
51–75 percent	248	6	882	62	2	82	60	1	124	106	3	166
More than 75 percent	304	7	759	67	2	87	‡	‡	‡	143	3	284

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	63	6	462	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	39	3	83
45–55 percent	600	6	1,298	110	1	151	74	1	74	277	3	434
More than 55 percent	60	6	335	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	57	6	104

Student/teacher ratio⁵,⁶
Less than 12	126	4	168	50	1	50	‡	‡	‡	104	3	194
12–16	211	5	629	‡	‡	‡	39	1	39	166	4	247
More than 16	337	10	998	59	2	80	‡	‡	‡	84	2	162

Number of classroom changes⁵
0–3 changes	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡
4–6 changes	386	7	1,335	82	1	147	90	2	173	228	4	406
More than 6 changes	302	6	714	54	1	66	‡	‡	‡	124	3	175

Use of paid law enforcement⁷
Regular use	702	7	2,074	148	1	226	90	1	173	372	4	621
No regular use	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#

Number of serious discipline problems⁸
No problems	200	4	403	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	67	1	87
1 problem	174	7	553	64	2	121	85	3	169	103	4	155
2 problems	171	8	568	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	78	4	114
3 or more problems	178	8	572	45	2	53	#	#	#	124	5	265

Transfers as percentage of enrollment⁵,⁹
0 to 6 percent	64	2	252	‡	‡	‡	60	2	60	155	4	204
6 to 11 percent	181	7	443	41	2	41	‡	‡	‡	77	3	161
11 to 21 percent	243	10	668	46	2	46	#	#	#	71	3	132
21 percent or more	162	7	376	34	1	67	‡	‡	‡	40	2	85

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions⁵,¹⁰
No disruptions	475	6	1,370	87	1	132	92	1	111	307	4	502
Any disruptions	212	7	554	61	2	94	‡	‡	‡	46	2	46

Percent of students absent without excuses
None	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡
1–2 percent	262	7	494	51	1	51	‡	‡	‡	103	3	218
3–5 percent	227	6	600	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	79	2	115
6–10 percent	161	7	465	30	1	50	‡	‡	‡	77	3	161
More than 10 percent	48	5	378	39	4	89	‡	‡	‡	105	11	118
# Rounds to zero.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹ Violent incidents include rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with or without a weapon, threat of physical attack with or without a weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon.
² Serious violent incidents include rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with a weapon, threat of physical attack with a weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon.
³ Theft/larceny (taking things over $10 without personal confrontation) was defined for respondents as, "the unlawful taking of another person's property without personal confrontation, threat, violence, or bodily harm. Included are pocket picking, stealing purse or backpack (if left unattended or no force was used to take it from owner), theft from a building, theft from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts or accessories, theft of bicycles, theft from vending machines, and all other types of thefts."
⁴ Other incidents include possession of a firearm or explosive device, possession of a knife or sharp object, distribution of illegal drugs, possession or use of alcohol or illegal drugs, sexual harassment, or vandalism.
⁵ Some schools are omitted from these categories because of missing data on their school characteristics. For this reason, the detailed results do not sum to the totals. See appendix J of 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) Detailed Data Documentation (NCES 2004-307) for further information.
⁶ Student/teacher ratio was calculated by dividing the total number of students enrolled in the school by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. The total number of full-time equivalent teachers is a combination of the full-time and part-time teachers, including special education teachers, with an adjustment to compensate for the part-time status.
⁷ Schools were included as regularly using paid law enforcement if they reported the use of paid law enforcement during any of the following times: at any time during school hours, while students were arriving or leaving, at selected school activities (e.g., athletic and social events, open houses, science fairs), or at any other time that the respondent specified.
⁸ Serious discipline problems is a count of discipline problems reported by principals. These discipline problems include student racial tensions, student bullying, student verbal abuse of teachers, widespread disorder in classrooms, and student acts of disrespect for teachers. If a principal reported that any of these problems occurred daily or weekly in their school, each was counted once in the total number of serious discipline problems. Undesirable gang activities and undesirable cult or extremist group activities were also counted once as a problem if the principal reported that these events occurred at all in their school.
⁹ Transfers as a percentage of enrollment combines the number of students who were transferred to a school and the number of students who were transferred from a school, divided by the total number of students enrolled in the school.
¹⁰ Schoolwide disruptions include actions that disrupted school activities such as bomb threats or anthrax threats. Respondents were instructed to exclude all fire alarms, including false alarms.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. "At school/at your school" was defined for respondents as including activities happening in school buildings, on school grounds, on school buses, and at places that are holding school-sponsored events or activities. Respondents were instructed to, unless the survey specified otherwise, only respond for those times that were during normal school hours or when school activities/events were in session. A hate crime was defined for respondents as, "a criminal offense or threat against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation." Secondary schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not lower than grade 9 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 12.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2000.

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