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                                |                                     Percent who strongly agree or agree with statement
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                                |       |       |                                    Twelfth graders in 1992
                                |Eighth | Tenth |______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
        Statements about        |graders|graders|        |            |         Race/ethnicity         |   Socioeconomic status     |Control of school attended
         school climate         |  in   |  in   | Total  |    Sex     |________________________________|      quartile\1\           |__________________________
                                | 1988  | 1990  |        |____________|     |     |His- |     |American|____________________________|      |        |  Other
                                |       |       |        |Male |Female|White|Black|panic|Asian| Indian |Lowest|Second|Third |Highest|Public|Catholic| private
________________________________|_______|_______|________|_____|______|_____|_____|_____|_____|________|______|______|______|_______|______|________|__________
               1                |   2   |   3   |   4    |  5  |  6   |  7  |  8  |  9  | 10  |   11   |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15   |  16  |   17   |    18
________________________________|_______|_______|________|_____|______|_____|_____|_____|_____|________|______|______|______|_______|______|________|__________
There is real school spirit ... |  68.6 |  70.4 |   71.4 |72.9 | 69.8 |72.1 |67.4 |71.0 |70.7 |   62.0 | 73.4 | 71.3 | 72.0 |  69.5 | 70.4 |   82.2 |     76.0
Discipline is fair .............|  69.1 |  70.2 |   68.0 |67.0 | 69.0 |68.0 |58.6 |74.7 |75.6 |   73.0 | 66.3 | 66.2 | 68.1 |  69.7 | 67.3 |   69.9 |     77.0
Teaching is good .............. |  80.2 |  81.9 |   85.4 |84.8 | 86.0 |85.1 |84.1 |88.5 |85.5 |   88.3 | 85.6 | 84.2 | 84.3 |  87.2 | 84.7 |   90.4 |     93.7
Teachers are interested in      |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  students .....................|  75.2 |  76.0 |   81.6 |81.5 | 81.8 |81.9 |78.4 |83.7 |80.1 |   83.0 | 80.3 | 80.5 | 80.1 |  84.8 | 80.4 |   91.1 |     95.4
I don't feel safe at this       |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  school .......................|  11.8 |   8.0 |   10.4 |10.8 | 10.1 | 8.6 |16.1 |14.7 |15.8 |   13.0 | 13.1 | 11.2 | 10.5 |   7.5 | 11.1 |    4.9 |      3.5
Disruptions by other students   |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  interfere with my learning ...|  39.6 |  39.9 |   33.1 |31.6 | 34.7 |30.8 |38.1 |39.8 |41.4 |   40.5 | 37.0 | 35.9 | 34.6 |  26.3 | 34.2 |   25.4 |     21.8
Fights often occur between      |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  different racial/ethnic groups|    ---|    ---|   22.7 |22.2 | 23.2 |20.9 |22.2 |31.9 |30.5 |   29.9 | 25.1 | 23.9 | 23.5 |  18.6 | 24.5 |    8.3 |      3.0
There are many gangs in school..|    ---|    ---|   16.3 |16.4 | 16.2 |12.5 |17.5 |36.4 |27.2 |   23.2 | 21.9 | 15.8 | 16.7 |  12.1 | 17.7 |    4.5 |      1.5
Students are graded fairly......|    ---|    ---|   78.3 |78.6 | 78.0 |79.5 |71.6 |77.6 |77.3 |   74.7 | 74.8 | 76.3 | 78.3 |  82.4 | 77.3 |   84.1 |     91.8
There is a lot of cheating      |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  on tests and assignments......|    ---|    ---|   58.8 |56.0 | 61.7 |59.7 |57.1 |53.8 |63.5 |   59.8 | 55.8 | 59.1 | 61.8 |  58.6 | 60.2 |   56.9 |     32.6
Some teachers ignore cheating   |       |       |        |     |      |     |     |     |     |        |      |      |      |       |      |        |
  when they see it..............|    ---|    ---|   30.9 |29.3 | 32.6 |32.7 |25.4 |26.0 |30.7 |   24.8 | 26.9 | 31.4 | 32.7 |  31.9 | 31.9 |   26.5 |     16.9
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988," Base Year and First and Second Followup surveys. (This table was prepared February 1994.)