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| Table 233.80. | Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported various security measures at school: Selected years, 1999 through 2015 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security measure | 1999 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||||
| Total, at least one of the listed security measures | — | (†) | 99.4 | (0.09) | 99.3 | (0.12) | 99.6 | (0.10) | 99.8 | (0.06) | 99.3 | (0.10) | 99.6 | (0.08) | 99.6 | (0.07) | 99.8 | (0.06) |
| Metal detectors | 9.0 | (0.51) | 8.7 | (0.61) | 10.1 | (0.84) | 10.7 | (0.74) | 10.1 | (0.51) | 10.6 | (0.76) | 11.2 | (0.64) | 11.0 | (0.72) | 12.3 | (0.74) |
| Locker checks | 53.3 | (0.83) | 53.5 | (0.92) | 53.0 | (0.91) | 53.2 | (0.90) | 53.6 | (0.95) | 53.8 | (1.17) | 53.0 | (0.99) | 52.0 | (1.13) | 52.9 | (1.25) |
| One or more security cameras to monitor the school | — | (†) | 38.5 | (1.13) | 47.9 | (1.16) | 57.9 | (1.35) | 66.0 | (0.99) | 70.0 | (1.05) | 76.7 | (0.83) | 76.7 | (1.06) | 82.5 | (0.85) |
| Security guards and/or assigned police officers | 54.1 | (1.36) | 63.6 | (1.25) | 69.6 | (0.91) | 68.3 | (1.13) | 68.8 | (0.98) | 68.1 | (1.05) | 69.8 | (1.01) | 70.4 | (1.04) | 69.5 | (1.07) |
| Other school staff or other adults supervising the hallway | 85.4 | (0.54) | 88.3 | (0.45) | 90.6 | (0.39) | 90.1 | (0.42) | 90.0 | (0.50) | 90.6 | (0.46) | 88.9 | (0.46) | 90.5 | (0.51) | 89.5 | (0.55) |
| A requirement that students wear badges or picture identification | — | (†) | 21.2 | (0.99) | 22.5 | (1.11) | 24.9 | (1.20) | 24.3 | (1.00) | 23.4 | (1.14) | 24.8 | (1.02) | 26.2 | (1.02) | 23.9 | (1.06) |
| A written code of student conduct | — | (†) | 95.1 | (0.34) | 95.3 | (0.37) | 95.5 | (0.36) | 95.9 | (0.29) | 95.6 | (0.39) | 95.7 | (0.30) | 95.9 | (0.30) | 95.7 | (0.38) |
| Locked entrance or exit doors during the day | 38.1 | (0.97) | 48.8 | (1.12) | 52.8 | (1.16) | 54.3 | (1.06) | 60.9 | (1.07) | 64.3 | (1.27) | 64.5 | (1.02) | 75.8 | (1.10) | 78.2 | (0.97) |
| A requirement that visitors sign in | 87.1 | (0.62) | 90.2 | (0.58) | 91.7 | (0.48) | 93.0 | (0.49) | 94.3 | (0.38) | 94.3 | (0.52) | 94.9 | (0.37) | 95.8 | (0.37) | 90.2 | (0.62) |
| —Not available. | ||||||||||||||||||
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: "At school" includes the school building, on school property, on a school bus, and, from 2001 onward, going to and from school. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 1999 through 2015. (This table was prepared August 2016.) |
