Table 230.50.

Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school during the school year and, among bullied students, percentage who reported being bullied in various locations, by selected student and school characteristics: 2011

[Standard errors appear in parentheses]
Student or school characteristic	Total		Among students who were bullied, percent by location
			Inside classroom			In hallway or stairwell		In bathroom or locker room			Cafeteria			Somewhere else in school building			Outside on school grounds			On school bus
1	2		3			4		5			6			7			8			9
Total	27.8	(0.76)	32.8		(1.27)	45.6	(1.32)	11.0		(0.94)	8.6		(0.72)	1.9		(0.40)	22.1		(1.14)	7.4		(0.78)
Sex
Male	24.5	(0.91)	30.8		(1.66)	44.0	(2.13)	13.2		(1.30)	8.1		(1.03)	1.7	!	(0.59)	23.1		(1.76)	8.2		(1.22)
Female	31.4	(0.99)	34.4		(1.69)	46.9	(1.79)	9.2		(1.33)	9.0		(0.95)	2.0		(0.56)	21.3		(1.49)	6.8		(0.95)
Race/ethnicity1
White	31.5	(1.07)	34.2		(1.70)	46.5	(1.59)	10.9		(1.14)	7.7		(0.92)	2.3		(0.59)	22.1		(1.30)	8.0		(0.89)
Black	27.2	(1.97)	34.1		(3.52)	39.1	(3.80)	9.8		(2.30)	12.5		(2.08)	‡		(†)	19.5		(2.82)	8.3		(1.80)
Hispanic	21.9	(1.07)	28.2		(2.54)	47.6	(2.94)	13.3		(2.23)	8.9		(1.69)	‡		(†)	21.5		(2.90)	6.0		(1.55)
Asian	14.9	(2.70)	19.3	!	(6.88)	44.4	(9.13)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)	#		(†)	30.3		(7.54)	‡		(†)
Other	23.7	(3.38)	30.2		(6.57)	47.1	(6.74)	10.0	!	(4.05)	8.9	!	(3.11)	#		(†)	32.1		(7.33)	‡		(†)
Grade
6th	37.0	(2.17)	33.5		(3.17)	36.5	(3.47)	13.2		(2.44)	7.7		(2.02)	#		(†)	26.7		(3.63)	12.5		(2.54)
7th	30.3	(1.64)	32.8		(2.90)	48.2	(3.62)	13.5		(2.53)	12.2		(2.20)	‡		(†)	21.5		(2.89)	9.9		(2.38)
8th	30.7	(1.68)	36.2		(2.89)	44.2	(3.42)	10.9		(1.87)	7.7		(1.58)	1.7	!	(0.78)	23.1		(2.58)	7.3		(1.48)
9th	26.5	(1.66)	37.0		(3.61)	45.5	(3.02)	9.6		(1.77)	9.2		(1.89)	‡		(†)	15.4		(2.53)	6.4		(1.57)
10th	28.0	(1.56)	27.6		(2.71)	50.5	(2.79)	10.3		(2.08)	9.0		(1.93)	3.1	!	(1.27)	20.3		(2.62)	7.2		(1.67)
11th	23.8	(1.72)	28.6		(3.24)	48.8	(3.85)	9.8		(2.15)	6.8		(1.99)	‡		(†)	26.2		(3.24)	4.7	!	(1.59)
12th	22.0	(1.34)	33.1		(3.75)	42.9	(3.83)	9.3		(2.32)	6.3	!	(1.92)	4.2	!	(1.30)	23.4		(3.25)	3.3	!	(1.32)
Urbanicity2
Urban	24.8	(1.28)	35.0		(2.34)	45.3	(2.87)	11.7		(1.70)	10.2		(1.57)	‡		(†)	24.5		(2.39)	5.0		(1.07)
Suburban	29.0	(1.07)	31.1		(1.68)	44.3	(1.64)	10.5		(1.19)	8.0		(0.87)	2.4		(0.60)	22.0		(1.31)	8.7		(1.19)
Rural	29.7	(1.82)	34.6		(3.41)	50.2	(2.99)	11.5		(1.93)	7.9		(1.71)	1.9	!	(0.90)	18.6		(2.41)	7.1		(1.57)
Control of school3
Public	28.4	(0.82)	33.0		(1.28)	45.9	(1.37)	10.8		(0.94)	8.6		(0.72)	1.9		(0.42)	21.5		(1.12)	7.8		(0.83)
Private	21.5	(1.91)	28.4		(4.41)	40.9	(5.24)	14.5		(3.62)	9.2	!	(2.95)	‡		(†)	31.0		(5.09)	‡		(†)

†Not applicable.

#Rounds to zero.

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.

‡Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.

1 Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. "Other" includes American Indians/Alaska Natives, Pacific Islanders, and persons reporting that they are of two or more races.

2 Refers to the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status of the respondent's household as defined in 2000 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Categories include "central city of an MSA (Urban)," "in MSA but not in central city (Suburban)," and "not MSA (Rural)." These data by metropolitan status were based on the location of households and differ from those published in Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results from the 2011 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which were based on the urban-centric measure of the location of the school that the child attended.

3 Control of school as reported by the respondent. These data differ from those based on a matching of the respondent-reported school name to the Common Core of Data's Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey or the Private School Survey, as reported in Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results from the 2011 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey.

NOTE: "At school" includes the school building, on school property, on a school bus, or going to and from school. Location totals may sum to more than 100 percent because students could have been bullied in more than one location.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2011. (This table was prepared September 2013.)