Figure 5.  Percentage of students ages 12 through 18 who reported personal avoidance behavior at school, by reports of criminal victimization at school: School year 2008–09

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! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is from 30 percent to 50 percent of the estimate's value.
¹ Includes fear of attack or harm at school and on the way to or from school. Includes respondents who "sometimes" or "most of the time" were fearful at school.
² Includes the entrance into the school, hallways or stairs, parts of the cafeteria, restrooms, and other places inside the school building.
NOTE: "Theft" includes attempted and completed purse snatching, completed pickpocketing, and all attempted and completed thefts, excluding motor vehicle theft. Theft does not include robbery, in which the threat or use of force is involved. "Violent" includes rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. "Any" includes violent crimes and theft. "At school" includes inside the school building, on school property, on the school bus, and on the way to or from school. Population size for students ages 12 through 18 is 25,383,000.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2009.