Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
Stats in Brief, NCES 2016-145
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Key Findings
Key Findings:
- In school year 2012–13, about 3.1 percent of students ages 12 through 18 were the victims of any crime at school. There were few differences in experiences of victimization at school based on student demographics;
- Students who had been victimized reported a range of negative school conditions at higher rates than students who had not been victimized;
- A greater percentage of students who reported being the victim of any crime at school reported being bullied at school (57 percent) than the proportion of student nonvictims who reported being bullied at school (20.4 percent); and
- Student victims of any crime (15 percent), and student victims of theft (9.2 percent) and violence (23.6 percent) reported fearing attack or harm at school at higher rates than student nonvictims (3.1 percent).
This report uses data from the 2013 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to examine student criminal victimization and the characteristics of crime victims and nonvictims. It also provides findings on student reports of the presence of gangs and weapons and the availability of drugs and alcohol at school, student reports of bullying and cyberbullying, and fear and avoidance behaviors of crime victims and nonvictims at school.
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