Table 5. Percentage of students ages 12–18 reporting availability of alcohol and the ease of obtaining alcohol at school during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2003

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Table 5. Percentage of students ages 12–18 reporting availability of alcohol and the ease of obtaining alcohol at school during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2003

	Alcoholic beverages available at school				If yes, ease of obtaining alcoholic beverages
Student or school characteristic	Yes	No	Don't know drug		Easy	Hard
Total	16.1	74.2	0.2		74.4	25.6

Sex
Male	16.6	74.1	0.2	!	71.6	28.4
Female	15.5	74.2	0.2	!	77.5	22.5

Race/ethnicity¹
White, non-Hispanic	18.6	73.0	0.1	!	75.0	25.0
Black, non-Hispanic	11.2	78.4	‡		75.0	25.0
Hispanic	12.4	75.1	0.4	!	72.2	27.8
Other, non-Hispanic	12.8	72.9	#		70.9	29.1

Grade
6th	3.6	88.3	‡		71.1	28.9
7th	7.2	84.0	‡		53.4	46.6
8th	8.2	83.7	‡		59.2	40.8
9th	19.2	67.3	‡		73.4	26.6
10th	23.4	68.2	‡		80.1	19.9
11th	24.1	65.7	‡		78.9	21.1
12th	24.6	64.8	‡		78.5	21.5

Household income
Less than $7,500	11.3	78.7	#		78.1	21.9	!
$7,500–14,999	11.3	78.9	‡		73.7	26.3
$15,000–24,999	12.8	77.1	#		70.4	29.6
$25,000–34,999	14.4	74.9	‡		71.1	28.9
$35,000–49,999	18.0	71.3	‡		78.6	21.4
$50,000 or more	17.9	73.3	‡		75.9	24.1

Urbanicity²
Urban	14.7	75.8	0.2	!	73.0	27.0
Suburban	16.7	73.5	0.2	!	75.6	24.4
Rural	16.1	73.8	‡		72.6	27.4

Self-report of grades at school³
Mostly A's	14.2	76.1	0.2	!	75.9	24.1
Mostly B's	16.1	74.1	‡		74.8	25.2
Mostly C's	17.3	72.8	‡		69.9	30.1
Mostly D's	27.0	68.5	#		82.1	17.9
Mostly F's	30.0	60.8	#		65.7	34.3	!

Student report of violent victimization at school⁴
Yes	32.7	59.2	‡		76.3	23.7	!
No	15.8	74.4	0.2		74.3	25.7

Student report of theft victimization at school⁴
Yes	22.8	70.6	#		81.0	19.0
No	15.8	74.3	0.2		74.0	26.0

Sector
Public	16.5	73.3	0.2		74.3	25.7
Private	11.4	83.8	#		76.5	23.5
! Interpret data with caution.
¹ "Other, non-Hispanic" includes Asians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians (including Alaska Natives). Beginning in 2003, students were given the option of identifying themselves as more than one race. Non-Hispanic students who identified themselves as more than one race in 2003 (1 percent of all respondents) were included in the "other, non-Hispanic" category. Respondents who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race.
² Urbanicity refers to the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status of the respondent's household as defined in 1990 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
³ Students who responded that their schools did not give grades or there was no alphabetical equivalent are not reported.
⁴ Victimization data are taken from the National Crime Victimization Survey Incident Report.
NOTE: "Violent" victimization includes serious violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) and simple assault. "At school" includes inside the school building, on school property, on a school bus, and on the way to and from school. Population size for students ages 12–18 was 25,684,000 in 2003. Detail may not sum to 100 percent because of "don't know" responses or rounding. Response options to the 2003 SCS questionnaire item include easy, fairly easy, hard, fairly hard, and not applicable. For purposes of presenting the data in this table, "easy" includes "easy" and "fairly easy," and "hard" includes "hard" and "fairly hard."
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2003.

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