Table 24. Percentage of public elementary schools that drilled students on a written plan for at least one crisis situation, and the percentage of schools that drilled students on a written plan for a specific crisis situation, by selected school characteristics: School year 2009

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Table 24. Percentage of public elementary schools that drilled students on a written plan for at least one crisis situation, and the percentage of schools that drilled students on a written plan for a specific crisis situation, by selected school characteristics: School year 2009–10


			Percentage of schools that drilled students on specified written crisis plans
School characteristic	Percentage of schools that drilled students on a written plan for at least one crisis situation		Shootings	Natural disasters¹	Hostages	Bomb threats or incidents	Chemical, biological, or radiological threats or incidents²
All public elementary schools	91.4		50.2	83.1	43.2	58.3	32.2

Enrollment size
Less than 300	85.1		40.3	76.5	38.5	52.2	23.9
300–499	93.0		53.2	84.4	44.0	61.7	34.7
500–999	93.4		53.1	85.3	45.3	58.8	34.1
1,000 or more	96.4		52.9	93.2	41.7	56.7	45.6

Urbanicity
City	88.8		46.6	81.0	43.5	57.5	33.4
Suburb	92.7		54.5	83.9	41.0	57.6	36.8
Town	95.6		51.8	89.5	46.2	58.5	24.0
Rural	90.6		48.3	81.2	43.8	59.9	29.6

Crime level where students live³
High	84.8		50.0	77.0	47.3	58.4	32.7
Moderate	92.6		47.6	84.7	36.1	56.5	35.0
Low	91.2		50.0	82.3	44.6	58.7	29.9
Mixed	94.0		56.5	87.3	48.3	60.1	37.8

Percent of combined Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native students
Less than 5 percent	88.3		55.5	77.0	42.5	62.1	41.4
5 to less than 20 percent	89.7		50.2	81.1	43.3	54.6	21.6
20 to less than 50 percent	93.4		49.7	84.7	46.8	61.3	35.4
50 percent or more	92.2		48.8	85.2	40.9	57.6	34.1

Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0–20 percent	91.9		51.3	81.1	42.6	58.2	32.7
21–50 percent	91.9		47.2	83.7	45.2	57.6	34.7
More than 50 percent	91.0		51.3	83.4	42.3	58.7	30.9

Percent of students below 15th percentile on standardized tests
0–5 percent	93.0		51.8	83.6	46.6	61.3	37.2
6–15 percent	90.4		48.3	82.5	41.2	54.7	28.0
More than 15 percent	90.0		50.1	83.0	39.9	58.5	29.5

Percent of students likely to attend college
0–35 percent	91.9		49.7	87.2	42.4	55.0	28.3
36–60 percent	85.6		45.7	77.6	43.3	57.6	27.3
More than 60 percent	94.4		53.0	84.2	43.4	60.3	36.9

Percent of students who consider academic achievement important
0–25 percent	94.9		58.5	92.1	47.5	61.5	33.8
26–50 percent	94.4		53.3	86.1	45.5	61.4	22.2
51–75 percent	91.5		45.5	82.4	40.8	58.4	34.5
More than 75 percent	90.4		51.0	81.9	43.4	57.3	33.1

Percent male enrollment
0–44 percent	90.3		44.6	82.3	45.8	63.8	31.7
45–55 percent	91.1		50.3	82.9	43.1	57.2	32.4
More than 55 percent	94.6		54.0	85.1	41.5	61.4	31.1

Student-to-FTE ratio⁴
Less than 12 students	78.7		41.7	67.3	38.4	52.3	32.3
12–16 students	91.3		49.8	82.9	45.5	62.9	31.2
More than 16 students	94.8		52.7	87.3	42.4	56.0	33.0

Number of classroom changes⁵
0–3 changes	87.0		45.4	80.8	40.5	56.7	27.3
4–6 changes	94.0		52.6	84.8	42.6	58.0	36.4
More than 6 changes	93.4		53.7	82.9	51.4	63.2	30.3

Regular use of law enforcement^⁶
Regular use	90.6		53.1	79.7	48.5	64.9	31.6
No regular use	91.7		49.1	84.4	41.1	55.8	32.4

Number of serious discipline problems⁷
No problems	91.0		49.4	83.0	41.8	59.8	33.7
1 problem	95.2		53.5	83.1	51.9	57.4	31.1
2 problems	89.3		62.9	82.0	38.0	51.4	29.2	!
3 or more problems	86.5		40.7	86.5	40.3	38.5	‡

Transfers as a percentage of enrollment⁸
Less than 6 percent	92.4		56.7	79.6	48.7	67.3	39.7
6 to less than 11 percent	94.9		48.6	87.5	40.3	56.7	32.2
11 to less than 21 percent	89.9		48.9	82.8	44.6	55.2	29.7
21 percent or more	89.2		46.8	83.1	39.2	54.3	27.8

Prevalence of schoolwide disruptions^⁹
No disruptions	91.1		50.3	82.8	43.5	58.0	32.0
Any disruptions	100.0	¹⁰	48.1	90.6	35.7	67.0	38.2

Percent of students absent on a daily basis
0–2 percent	86.4		33.1	78.2	34.7	45.3	21.5	!
3–5 percent	92.0		51.2	83.9	44.7	58.1	35.2
6–10 percent	90.7		52.2	81.7	38.9	60.0	27.1
More than 10 percent	96.3		51.5	88.5	61.7	77.8	34.2

Prevalence of violent incidents¹¹
No violent incidents	87.5		49.5	80.7	42.7	59.8	34.9
Any violent incidents	93.6		50.6	84.4	43.4	57.5	30.7
¹Examples of natural disasters provided to respondents were earthquakes or tornadoes.
²Examples of chemical, biological, or radiological threats or incidents provided to respondents were the release of mustard gas, anthrax, smallpox, or radioactive materials.
³Respondents were asked, "How would you describe the crime level in the area(s) in which your students live?" Response options included "high level of crime," "moderate level of crime," "low level of crime," and "students come from areas with very different levels of crime."
⁴Student-to-FTE ratio was calculated by dividing the total number of students enrolled in the school by the total number of full-time-equivalent teachers and aides. The total number of full-time-equivalent teachers and aides is a combination of the full-time and part-time teachers and aides, including special education teachers and aides, with an adjustment to compensate for the part-time status.
⁵Respondents were asked, "How many classroom changes do most students make in a typical day?" Responses exclude morning arrival and afternoon departure.
⁶Respondents were asked, "During the 2009–10 school year, did you have any security guards, security personnel, or sworn law enforcement officers present at your school at least once a week?"
⁷Serious discipline problems include student racial/ethnic tensions, student bullying, student sexual harassment of other students, student verbal abuse of teachers, widespread disorder in classrooms, student acts of disrespect for teachers other than verbal abuse, gang activities, and cult or extremist group activities. If a respondent reported that any of these problems occurred daily or weekly in their school, each was counted once in the total number of serious discipline problems.
⁸Transfers 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.
⁹Schoolwide disruptions include actions that disrupted school activities such as death threats, bomb threats, and chemical, biological, or radiological threats. Respondents were instructed to exclude all fire alarms, including false alarms.
¹⁰Rounds to 100.
¹¹Violent incidents include rape or attempted 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 robbery with or without a weapon.
NOTE: Respondents were not asked if they drilled students on the following crisis situations: suicide threat or incident; the U.S. national threat level is changed to red (severe risk of terrorist attack) by the Department of Homeland Security; and pandemic flu. Respondents were included as having drilled students on a written plan for responding to at least one crisis situation if they reported that they drilled students on any of the following: school shootings; natural disasters; hostages; bomb threats or incidents; or chemical, biological, or radiological threats or incidents. Detail may not sum to totals because schools may have reported more than one of the practices. Responses were provided by the principal or the person most knowledgeable about crime and safety issues at the school. Elementary schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not higher than grade 3 & the highest grade is not higher than grade 8. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2009–10 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS).

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