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Table 17.  Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported bringing a knife to school, having knowledge of a gun being brought by another student to school, having seen another student with a gun at school, and the possibility of accessing a gun during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2005


    Brought a knife onto school property   Knew any (other) student who brought a gun onto school property   Have seen another student with a gun at school   Possible to get a gun without adult supervision, at or away from school
Student or school characteristic   Yes   No   Yes   No   Yes   No   Yes   No
Total   1.2   98.8   5.2   94.8   1.8   97.4   8.3   91.7
                                 
Sex                                
Male   1.7   98.3   5.6   94.4   2.1   96.8   10.9   89.1
Female   0.8   99.2   4.8   95.2   1.5   97.9   5.5   94.5
                                 
Race/ethnicity1                                
White, non-Hispanic   1.3   98.7   4.1   95.9   0.9   98.4   8.5   91.5
Black, non-Hispanic   1.1 ! 98.9   9.7   90.3   4.8   94.1   10.4   89.6
Hispanic   1.4   98.6   6.0   94.0   2.6   96.4   6.6   93.4
Other, non-Hispanic   ‡   99.2   3.4   96.6   ‡   97.5   4.9   95.1
                                 
Grade                                
6th   0.5 ! 99.5   4.1 ! 95.9   0.7 ! 97.9   2.4   97.6
7th   1.4   98.6   2.8   97.2   0.7 ! 98.0   3.1   96.9
8th   0.8 ! 99.2   5.3   94.7   1.8   97.3   3.8   96.2
9th   0.9 ! 99.1   6.6   93.4   1.9   97.4   9.2   90.8
10th   2.0   98.0   6.2   93.8   2.4   97.1   10.2   89.8
11th   1.2 ! 98.8   5.7   94.3   2.9   96.6   12.5   87.5
12th   1.7   98.3   5.6   94.4   1.8   97.3   16.5   83.5
                                 
Household income                                
Less than $7,500   ‡   98.4   9.5   90.5   4.8 ! 94.6   6.3 ! 93.7
$7,500–14,999   1.4 ! 98.6   6.3   93.7   2.4 ! 96.2   6.0   94.0
$15,000–24,999   1.0 ! 99.0   5.9   94.1   2.7 ! 97.0   6.7   93.3
$25,000–34,999   1.5 ! 98.5   6.0   94.0   2.5 ! 96.2   8.8   91.2
$35,000–49,999   0.9 ! 99.1   4.4   95.6   1.2 ! 97.6   8.5   91.5
$50,000 or more   1.0   99.0   4.6   95.4   0.8   98.8   8.0   92.0
                                 
Urbanicity2                                
Urban   1.2   98.8   6.9   93.1   3.2   95.8   8.2   91.8
Suburban   1.1   98.9   4.6   95.4   1.3   97.9   7.2   92.8
Rural   1.6   98.4   4.5   95.5   1.2 ! 98.0   11.8   88.2
                                 
Self-report of grades at school3                                
Mostly A's   1.1   98.9   4.7   95.3   1.2   97.8   7.1   92.9
Mostly B's   1.0   99.0   4.5   95.5   1.7   97.6   7.6   92.4
Mostly C's   1.4   98.6   6.2   93.8   2.9   96.8   9.7   90.3
Mostly D's   ‡   97.2   12.0   88.0   ‡   95.9   17.3   82.7
Mostly F's   ‡   97.3   6.2 ! 93.8   ‡   96.9   7.4 ! 92.6
                                 
Student report of violent victimization at school4                                
Yes   ‡   97.3   4.2 ! 95.8   ‡   95.0   12.6   87.4
No   1.2   98.8   5.2   94.8   1.8   97.4   8.2   91.8
                                 
Student report of theft victimization at school4                                
Yes    ‡   99.1   7.5   92.5   3.9 ! 94.3   12.3   87.7
No    1.3   98.7   5.2   94.8   1.7   97.5   8.1   91.9
                                 
Sector                                 
Public    1.3   98.7   5.6   94.4   2.0   97.2   8.5   91.5
Private    ‡   99.7   0.9 ! 99.1   #   99.2   5.8   94.2
 
# Rounds to zero.
! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is from 30 percent to 50 percent of the estimate’s value.
‡ Reporting standards not met. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 50 percent or more of the estimate's value.
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 2005 (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 25,811,000 in 2005. There were too few cases reported for "brought a gun onto school property" and "brought some other weapon onto school property" across all student and school characteristics to report reliable data; thus, these are not reported. Details may not sum to 100 percent for "have seen another student with a gun at school" because respondent-volunteered "don't know" responses are included in the base for the percentages listed.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2005.

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