Table 2. Number and percentage of public elementary schools reporting violent and other incidents to police with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999

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Table 2. Number and percentage of public elementary schools reporting violent and other incidents to police with the number of incidents reported, by selected school characteristics: 1999–2000

School characteristic	Violent incidents¹			Serious violent incidents²			Theft³			Other incidents⁴
School characteristic	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents	Num- ber of schools	Per- cent of schools	Num- ber of incidents
All public elementary schools
All public elementary schools	10,020	20	48,057	4,189	8	9,205	7,680	15	15,456	18,078	36	67,049

Enrollment size
Less than 300	1,249	10	1,726	381	3	491	1,088	8	1,515	3,255	25	7,392
300–499	3,341	20	10,568	1,020	6	2,475	2,368	14	5,190	5,874	36	22,304
500–999	5,103	27	34,142	2,575	14	5,994	3,902	21	7,966	8,041	43	33,633
1,000 or more	328	20	1,620	214	13	245	322	20	784	908	56	3,720

Urbanicity
City	4,148	31	30,157	1,929	15	5,320	3,283	25	7,011	6,478	49	34,572
Urban fringe	2,794	17	8,305	1,569	9	2,625	2,219	13	3,942	4,848	29	14,359
Town	1,264	23	5,446	481	9	979	809	15	1,727	2,337	42	6,264
Rural	1,815	13	4,148	210	1	281	1,368	10	2,776	4,415	31	11,854

Crime level where students live⁵
Crime level where students live⁵
High	2,187	52	22,509	1,057	25	2,553	1,698	40	3,203	2,602	62	19,097
Moderate	2,452	26	8,564	862	9	2,535	1,529	16	3,828	3,860	41	16,403
Low	4,506	14	14,156	1,775	6	2,947	3,762	12	6,587	9,510	30	25,897
Mixed	875	22	2,827	495	12	1,170	690	17	1,838	2,034	50	5,579

Percent minority enrollment⁵
Percent minority enrollment⁵
0–5 percent	1,744	12	3,789	239	2	309	1,580	11	2,783	3,685	26	10,777
6–20 percent	1,921	18	8,205	856	8	1,732	1,382	13	2,979	3,678	34	12,842
21–50 percent	1,810	19	7,550	951	10	2,798	1,046	11	2,069	4,007	41	13,902
More than 50 percent	4,424	30	27,910	2,144	15	4,366	3,551	24	6,899	6,476	44	28,933

Percent of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch


0–20 percent	1,800	15	5,994	650	5	1,158	1,394	11	2,371	3,512	28	10,711
21–50 percent	1,988	13	5,456	768	5	972	2,055	13	3,610	5,192	33	14,828
More than 50 percent	6,232	29	36,607	2,772	13	7,075	4,231	19	9,474	9,374	43	41,510

Percent of students below 15th percentile
Percent of students below 15th percentile
on standardized tests
0–5 percent	2,238	14	4,951	858	5	1,144	1,531	10	2,803	4,428	28	9,929
6–15 percent	3,149	17	20,461	810	4	1,672	2,060	11	3,904	5,910	31	23,924
More than 15 percent	4,633	30	22,645	2,521	17	6,389	4,089	27	8,748	7,740	51	33,196

Percent of students likely to attend college
Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	5,279	32	29,429	2,172	13	5,158	3,388	21	6,420	7,507	46	35,643
36–60 percent	3,251	18	14,781	1,104	6	2,532	2,891	16	5,781	6,835	38	21,973
More than 60 percent	1,490	10	3,847	914	6	1,515	1,400	9	3,254	3,736	24	9,433

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important


0–25 percent	1,270	36	5,788	353	10	1,186	965	28	2,084	1,933	55	6,170
26–50 percent	3,123	28	14,015	1,763	16	4,074	2,724	24	6,202	5,068	45	25,760
51–75 percent	2,710	18	18,733	638	4	778	1,966	13	3,392	5,462	36	18,892
More than 75 percent	2,918	15	9,521	1,436	7	3,168	2,025	10	3,777	5,615	28	16,228

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	1,431	23	3,753	407	7	617	902	14	1,795	2,326	37	10,660
45–55 percent	7,448	20	37,392	3,367	9	6,460	5,753	16	10,939	13,650	37	48,658
More than 55 percent	1,141	17	6,912	415	6	2,128	1,024	15	2,722	2,102	32	7,730

Student/teacher ratio⁵,⁶
Less than 12	3,093	19	19,622	1,103	7	1,731	1,946	12	4,862	5,839	36	22,375
12–16	3,180	20	15,267	1,191	7	3,777	2,784	17	5,707	5,588	35	24,612
More than 16	3,629	24	13,048	1,896	13	3,698	2,949	20	4,887	6,261	42	19,456

Number of classroom changes⁵
0–3 changes	4,138	20	24,069	1,548	8	3,351	3,546	18	6,068	7,223	36	23,260
4–6 changes	4,227	19	15,990	1,925	8	3,236	2,934	13	6,070	8,259	36	32,151
More than 6 changes	1,315	22	7,118	657	11	2,558	949	16	2,816	2,171	36	8,697

Use of paid law enforcement⁸
Use of paid law enforcement⁸
Regular use	5,694	31	37,793	2,177	12	4,941	4,212	23	9,825	8,365	45	42,964
No regular use	4,326	14	10,264	2,013	6	4,264	3,468	11	5,631	9,713	31	24,085

Number of serious discipline problems⁸
Number of serious discipline problems⁸
No problems	4,089	12	10,051	1,804	6	2,546	3,370	10	6,493	10,315	32	25,315
1 problem	2,369	27	7,812	658	8	1,226	1,353	15	2,780	2,968	34	10,944
2 problems	1,037	24	19,902	735	17	2,966	1,331	31	2,607	1,966	46	11,766
3 or more problems	2,526	60	10,291	993	24	2,467	1,626	39	3,575	2,829	68	19,025

Transfers as percentage of enrollment⁵,⁹
Transfers as percentage of enrollment⁵,⁹
0 to 6 percent	1,362	14	3,417	709	7	1,196	1,662	17	4,476	2,804	28	8,825
6 to 11 percent	1,622	15	6,411	510	5	2,181	943	9	1,756	3,074	28	11,785
11 to 21 percent	2,705	23	12,581	1,192	10	2,417	1,975	17	3,756	4,653	40	16,379
21 percent or more	4,042	26	24,855	1,643	11	3,221	2,810	18	5,144	6,689	43	26,935

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions⁵,¹⁰
Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions⁵,¹⁰
No disruptions	8,472	19	44,204	3,745	8	8,554	6,575	15	12,639	15,893	36	58,866
Any disruptions	1,002	44	2,367	217	10	424	458	20	1,424	954	42	3,875

Percent of students absent without excuses
Percent of students absent without excuses
None	987	10	1,788	471	5	615	583	6	1,307	2,353	23	5,469
1–2 percent	4,639	22	15,506	1,663	8	4,009	2,915	14	5,093	8,019	38	25,411
3–5 percent	2,488	19	10,418	1,180	9	3,261	2,382	18	5,130	5,014	38	20,057
6–10 percent	1,426	43	7,397	611	19	971	1,231	37	2,717	1,843	56	9,236
More than 10 percent	481	24	12,948	265	13	350	568	28	1,208	850	42	6,877
¹ Violent incidents include rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with or without a weapon, threat of physical attack with or without a weapon, and robberywith or without a weapon.
² Serious violent incidents include rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with a weapon, threat of physical attack with a weapon, and robbery with orwithout a weapon.
³ Theft/larceny (taking things over $10 without personal confrontation) was defined for respondents as, "the unlawful taking of another person's property without personalconfrontation, threat, violence, or bodily harm. Included are pocket picking, stealing purse or backpack (if left unattended or no force was used to take it from owner), theft from abuilding, theft from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts or accessories, theft of bicycles, theft from vending machines, and all other types of thefts."
⁴ Other incidents include possession of a firearm or explosive device, possession of a knife or sharp object, distribution of illegal drugs, possession or use of alcohol or illegaldrugs, sexual harassment, or vandalism.
⁵ Some schools are omitted from these categories because of missing data on their school characteristics. For this reason, the detailed results do not sum to the totals. See appendix J of 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) Detailed Data Documentation (NCES 2004-307) for further information.
⁶ Student/teacher ratio was calculated by dividing the total number of students enrolled in the school by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. The total number offull-time equivalent teachers is a combination of the full-time and part-time teachers, including special education teachers, with an adjustment to compensate for the part-time status.
⁷ Schools were included as regularly using paid law enforcement if they reported the use of paid law enforcement during any of the following times: at any time during school hours,while students were arriving or leaving, at selected school activities (e.g., athletic and social events, open houses, science fairs), or at any other time that the respondent specified.
⁸ Serious discipline problems is a count of discipline problems reported by principals. These discipline problems include student racial tensions, student bullying, student verbalabuse of teachers, widespread disorder in classrooms, and student acts of disrespect for teachers. If a principal reported that any of these problems occurred daily or weeklyin their school, each was counted once in the total number of serious discipline problems. Undesirable gang activities and undesirable cult or extremist group activities were alsocounted once as a problem if the principal reported that these events occurred at all in their school.
⁹ Transfers as a percentage of enrollment combines the number of students who were transferred to a school and the number of students who were transferred from a school,divided by the total number of students enrolled in the school.
¹⁰ Schoolwide disruptions include actions that disrupted school activities such as bomb threats or anthrax threats. Respondents were instructed to exclude all fire alarms,including false alarms.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. "At school/at your school" was defined for respondents as including activities happening in school buildings, on schoolgrounds, on school buses, and at places that are holding school-sponsored events or activities. Respondents were instructed to, unless the survey specified otherwise, onlyrespond for those times that were during normal school hours or when school activities/events were in session. Elementary schools are defined as schools in which thelowest grade is not higher than grade 3 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 8.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2000.

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