Table 6. Number and percentage of public elementary schools reporting incidents involving distribution, possession, and use of illegal drugs, sexual harassment, and vandalism with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999

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Table 6. Number and percentage of public elementary schools reporting incidents involving distribution, possession, and use of illegal drugs, sexual harassment, and vandalism with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999–2000

School characteristic	Distribution of illegal drugs			Possess/use alcohol/illegal drugs			Sexual harassment¹			Vandalism²
School characteristic	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents
All public elementary schools	735	1	1,392	2,763	6	7,261	11,925	24	40,130	20,569	41	80,810

Enrollment size
Less than 300	#	#	#	498	4	627	2,621	20	5,979	4,361	34	9,460
300–499	‡	‡	‡	843	5	3,533	3,439	21	12,923	6,167	38	29,773
500–999	588	3	1,244	1,285	7	2,964	5,511	29	20,307	9,424	50	36,383
1,000 or more	#	#	#	137	8	137	353	22	922	617	38	5,194

Urbanicity
City	283	2	724	760	6	1,658	3,615	27	11,704	7,399	56	33,733
Urban fringe	251	2	336	799	5	3,841	3,437	21	10,126	6,294	38	21,755
Town	‡	‡	‡	219	4	433	1,195	21	3,563	2,376	43	8,338
Rural	‡	‡	‡	984	7	1,329	3,677	26	14,736	4,500	31	16,985

Crime level where students live³
High	216	5	432	606	14	879	1,164	28	5,514	2,458	58	16,565
Moderate	‡	‡	‡	381	4	3,694	2,549	27	12,004	4,716	50	23,529
Low	‡	‡	‡	1,629	5	2,540	7,088	22	19,999	11,158	35	34,625
Mixed	207	5	266	‡	‡	‡	1,124	28	2,613	2,237	55	6,091

Percent minority enrollment³
0–5 percent	218	2	277	781	6	997	3,894	28	11,693	4,880	35	17,222
6–20 percent	313	3	766	560	5	1,896	1,931	18	7,402	3,793	35	13,652
21–50 percent	‡	‡	‡	602	6	3,489	2,290	23	8,684	4,438	45	17,194
More than 50 percent	‡	‡	‡	820	6	879	3,500	24	11,404	7,167	49	32,271

Percent of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch
0–20 percent	225	2	225	346	3	724	2,867	23	7,961	4,265	34	11,104
21–50 percent	‡	‡	‡	638	4	1,042	3,583	23	12,839	6,180	39	23,234
More than 50 percent	451	2	1,049	1,778	8	5,494	5,475	25	19,330	10,123	47	46,473

Percent of students below 15th percentile on standardized tests
0–5 percent	260	2	320	497	3	781	2,892	18	6,548	5,287	34	13,962
6–15 percent	‡	‡	‡	949	5	4,171	4,788	25	16,680	7,393	39	31,332
More than 15 percent	404	3	930	1,316	9	2,310	4,244	28	16,902	7,889	52	35,517

Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	233	1	318	1,470	9	4,357	4,497	27	16,414	8,008	49	38,563
36–60 percent	372	2	884	917	5	2,528	4,872	27	16,975	7,654	42	27,212
More than 60 percent	‡	‡	‡	376	2	376	2,556	17	6,742	4,906	32	15,035

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important
0–25 percent	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	1,513	43	3,704	2,238	64	8,332
26–50 percent	256	2	723	1,036	9	2,469	3,762	34	14,811	5,506	49	29,606
51–75 percent	‡	‡	‡	594	4	3,530	3,739	24	11,994	6,814	45	21,681
More than 75 percent	289	1	289	985	5	1,114	2,912	15	9,620	6,010	30	21,191

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	‡	‡	‡	248	4	343	1,486	24	4,361	2,482	40	8,481
45–55 percent	496	1	1,008	2,230	6	6,574	9,270	25	33,795	15,557	42	62,435
More than 55 percent	‡	‡	‡	284	4	344	1,169	18	1,974	2,530	38	9,895

Student/teacher ratio³,⁴
Less than 12	313	2	694	514	3	3,922	4,794	29	16,653	6,526	40	22,373
12–16	337	2	527	1,572	10	2,190	3,362	21	12,184	6,087	38	29,127
More than 16	‡	‡	‡	676	5	1,149	3,400	23	9,932	7,400	50	28,269

Number of classroom changes³
0–3 changes	207	1	266	895	4	1,083	3,672	18	9,567	8,358	41	25,808
4–6 changes	298	1	455	1,196	5	4,572	5,658	25	22,437	9,109	40	40,037
More than 6 changes	230	4	671	672	12	1,605	2,356	39	6,269	2,862	48	12,150

Use of paid law enforcement⁵
Regular use	280	2	807	797	4	4,170	5,044	27	20,236	8,978	49	45,996
No regular use	455	1	585	1,965	6	3,091	6,881	22	19,894	11,590	37	34,815

Number of serious discipline problems⁶
No problems	‡	‡	‡	1,522	5	4,813	6,000	18	14,634	10,853	33	29,977
1 problem	284	3	403	344	4	498	2,243	26	5,974	3,552	41	13,302
2 problems	‡	‡	‡	303	7	303	1,550	36	8,019	2,898	68	15,984
3 or more problems	292	7	830	594	14	1,647	2,132	51	11,503	3,266	78	21,548

Transfers as percentage of enrollment³,⁷
0 to 6 percent	206	2	647	515	5	1,570	2,143	21	7,643	3,161	32	11,205
6 to 11 percent	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	2,267	21	7,631	3,732	34	12,948
11 to 21 percent	‡	‡	‡	1,205	10	1,961	2,667	23	7,496	4,856	42	17,078
21 percent or more	304	2	460	790	5	1,003	4,255	27	16,410	7,932	51	36,862

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions³,⁸
No disruptions	735	2	1,392	2,333	5	6,332	10,548	24	35,426	17,575	40	70,664
Any disruptions	#	#	#	‡	‡	‡	858	38	4,074	1,120	49	3,542

Percent of students absent without excuses
None	‡	‡	‡	307	3	307	1,603	15	4,306	3,040	29	8,433
1–2 percent	‡	‡	‡	1,409	7	4,795	5,207	25	16,997	8,376	40	30,242
3–5 percent	278	2	789	559	4	1,612	3,422	26	11,483	6,467	50	30,768
6–10 percent	‡	‡	‡	333	10	393	1,133	34	4,165	1,895	58	6,586
More than 10 percent	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	561	28	3,180	791	39	4,782
# Rounds to zero.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹ Sexual harassment was defined for respondents as, "unsolicited, offensive behavior that inappropriately asserts sexuality over another person. The behavior may be verbal or non-verbal."
² Vandalism was defined for respondents as, "the willful damage or destruction of school property including bombing, arson, graffiti, and other acts that cause property damage. Includes damage caused by computer hacking."
³ 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.
⁴ 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.
⁵ 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.
⁶ 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.
⁷ 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.
⁸ 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. Elementary schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not higher than grade 3 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 8.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2000.

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