Table 24. Percentage of public elementary schools reporting use of selected methods to involve parents, by school characteristics: 1999

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Table 24. Percentage of public elementary schools reporting use of selected methods to involve parents, by school characteristics: 1999–2000

School characteristic	Formal process to obtain parent input on school crime and discipline policies	Training or technical assistance to parents in dealing with students' problem behaviors	Program that involves parents at school helping to maintain school discipline
All public elementary schools	52	51	22

Enrollment size
Less than 300	42	40	14
300–499	50	56	21
500–999	57	54	28
1,000 or more	82	68	28

Urbanicity
City	61	62	39
Urban fringe	52	56	19
Town	48	49	16
Rural	43	37	12

Crime level where students live¹
High	65	65	44
Moderate	60	56	28
Low	46	47	17
Mixed	58	58	19

Percent minority enrollment¹
0–5 percent	43	43	13
6–20 percent	47	50	14
21–50 percent	54	52	21
More than 50 percent	61	59	38

Percent of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch
0–20 percent	45	49	18
21–50 percent	52	49	14
More than 50 percent	55	54	30

Percent of students below 15th percentile on standardized tests
0–5 percent	48	53	21
6–15 percent	49	46	17
More than 15 percent	59	54	29

Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	50	49	25
36–60 percent	55	50	20
More than 60 percent	50	55	22

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important
0–25 percent	44	52	21
26–50 percent	48	40	19
51–75 percent	55	56	24
More than 75 percent	53	53	23

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	51	53	33
45–55 percent	49	51	19
More than 55 percent	65	49	29

Student/teacher ratio¹,²
Less than 12	49	49	16
12–16	53	55	21
More than 16	53	49	28

Number of classroom changes¹
0–3 changes	53	53	27
4–6 changes	51	52	21
More than 6 changes	49	44	13

Use of paid law enforcement³
Regular use	58	57	33
No regular use	48	47	16

Number of serious discipline problems⁴
No problems	49	48	18
1 problem	51	55	27
2 problems	64	59	29
3 or more problems	63	63	32

Transfers as percentage of enrollment¹,⁵
0 to 6 percent	44	49	20
6 to 11 percent	52	45	20
11 to 21 percent	52	49	20
21 percent or more	56	56	25

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions¹,⁶
No disruptions	52	50	22
Any disruptions	58	58	23

Percent of students absent without excuses
None	41	49	16
1–2 percent	49	46	18
3–5 percent	59	57	30
6–10 percent	63	67	28
More than 10 percent	69	57	27

Prevalence of violent incidents¹,⁷
No violent incidents	45	46	24
Any violent incidents	56	54	21
¹ 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.
² 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.
³ 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.
⁴ 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.
⁵ 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.
⁶ 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.
⁷ Violent incidents include rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with or without a weapon, threat of physical attack with or without a weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon.
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. A gang was defined for respondents as, "an ongoing loosely organized association of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, that has a common name, signs, symbols or colors, whose members engage, either individually or collectively, in violent or other forms of illegal behavior." 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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