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

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Table 24. Percentage of public secondary 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 secondary schools	63	33	19

Enrollment size
Less than 300	56	26	21
300–499	55	29	12
500–999	62	29	18
1,000 or more	70	41	21

Urbanicity
City	70	40	32
Urban fringe	66	37	14
Town	56	28	14
Rural	60	28	18

Crime level where students live¹
High	67	55	41
Moderate	65	33	22
Low	63	32	16
Mixed	62	33	24

Percent minority enrollment¹
0–5 percent	59	24	11
6–20 percent	63	36	18
21–50 percent	65	35	20
More than 50 percent	67	42	33

Percent of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch
0–20 percent	61	32	18
21–50 percent	65	30	16
More than 50 percent	64	43	27

Percent of students below 15^th percentile on standardized tests
0–5 percent	65	32	15
6–15 percent	60	32	18
More than 15 percent	67	38	25

Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	63	29	21
36–60 percent	62	32	14
More than 60 percent	65	36	21

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important
0–25 percent	61	27	23
26–50 percent	57	27	13
51–75 percent	64	32	18
More than 75 percent	67	40	22

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	75	42	37
45–55 percent	62	33	17
More than 55 percent	67	27	21

Student/teacher ratio¹,²
Less than 12	60	26	14
12–16	66	36	22
More than 16	64	37	20

Number of classroom changes¹
0–3 changes	62	36	19
4–6 changes	66	34	22
More than 6 changes	62	32	16

Use of paid law enforcement³
Regular use	64	35	20
No regular use	58	17	13

Number of serious discipline problems⁴
No problems	62	30	18
1 problem	67	40	20
2 problems	64	33	23
3 or more problems	62	34	15

Transfers as percentage of enrollment¹,⁵
0 to 6 percent	65	36	23
6 to 11 percent	59	36	14
11 to 21 percent	66	28	17
21 percent or more	62	33	19

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions¹,⁶
No disruptions	64	32	18
Any disruptions	58	37	22

Percent of students absent without excuses
None	68	25	14
1–2 percent	63	31	16
3–5 percent	60	34	15
6–10 percent	66	40	26
More than 10 percent	65	37	34

Prevalence of violent incidents¹,⁷
No violent incidents	57	29	21
Any violent incidents	64	34	19
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." Secondary schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not lower than grade 9 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 12.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2000.

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