STUDENTS, WEAPONS, AND SCHOOL BULLYING FACTS AND FIGURES

• 16 percent of 15,686 students surveyed nationally in the sixth though 10th grades said they had been bullied in that school year.
• Of the 16 percent, 6 percent admitted to bullying other students.
• 18 percent of students surveyed nationally said they had carried a weapon 30 days preceding the survey.
• 5.4 percent student said they had carried a gun in the 30 days preceding the survey.
• 6.4 percent of students said they had carried a weapon onto school property in the 30 preceding the survey.
• In the 12 months preceding the survey, 7.9 percent of the students said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property one or more times.
• 6 percent of students reported not going to school in the 30 days preceding the survey because they felt unsafe at school or traveling to and from school.
• In 2003, students’ ages 12 to 18 years were victims of about 740,000 violent crimes.

Sources: Journal of the American Medical Association Study, April 2001; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Report; Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety Statistics, 2005.