Title page
Contents
Foreword 4
Acknowledgments 5
Introduction 8
Highlights 9
Elementary and Secondary Student and Teacher Victimization 11
Violent Deaths and Active Shooter Incidents 11
Nonfatal Criminal Victimization Experienced by Students 13
Student Reports of Bullying Victimization 14
Teacher Victimization 17
School Environment 19
Gangs and Hate-Related Speech 19
Student Fear and Avoidance 21
Teachers' Reports of Student Behavior and Rule Enforcement 22
Fights and Weapons 23
Student Involvement in Physical Fights 23
Students Carrying Weapons and Threats and Injuries With Weapons 24
Safety, Security, and Mental Health Practices 26
Safety Measures and Crisis Planning 26
Security Staff and Officers Carrying Firearms 28
Mental Health Services and Support 28
Postsecondary Campus Safety and Security 31
Active Shooter Incidents 31
Criminal Incidents 32
Hate Crime Incidents 33
FIGURE 1. Number of casualties in active shooter incidents at elementary and secondary schools: 2000 through 2022 12
FIGURE 2. Rate of nonfatal victimization against students ages 12-18 per 1,000 students, by location: Selected years, 2012 through 2022 13
FIGURE 3. Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported being bullied during school, by selected student and school characteristics: School year 2021-22 15
FIGURE 4. Among students ages 12-18 who reported being bullied during school, percentage who reported being bullied online or by text, by selected... 16
FIGURE 5. Percentage of public school teachers who reported that they were threatened with injury or physically attacked by a student from their school... 18
FIGURE 6. Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported a gang presence, being called hate-related words, and seeing hate-related graffiti at school:... 20
FIGURE 7. Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported being afraid of attack or harm, and percentage who reported avoiding school activities or... 21
FIGURE 8. Percentage of public school teachers who agreed that student misbehavior and student tardiness and class cutting interfered with their teaching... 22
FIGURE 9. Percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported having been in a physical fight at least one time on school property during the previous... 24
FIGURE 10. Percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported carrying a weapon at least 1 day on school property during the previous 30 days, and... 25
FIGURE 11. Percentage of public schools with a written plan for procedures to be performed in selected scenarios: School year 2021-22 27
FIGURE 12. Percentage of public schools providing diagnostic mental health assessments and treatment to students, by selected school characteristics:... 29
FIGURE 13. Number of casualties in active shooter incidents at postsecondary institutions: 2000 through 2022 31
FIGURE 14. Number of on-campus crimes reported per 10,000 full-time-equivalent (FTE) students in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by... 32
FIGURE 15. Number of on-campus hate crimes at degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by category of bias motivating the crime and selected types... 34