Table 4. Percentage of students ages 12–18 reporting perceptions of school rule fairness and enforcement at school during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2003

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Table 4. Percentage of students ages 12–18 reporting perceptions of school rule fairness and enforcement at school during the previous 6 months, by selected student and school characteristics: 2003

	Everyone knows what the school rules are			School rules are fair		Consistent punishment for rule breaking		School rules are strictly enforced		Punishment is known if rules are broken
Student or school characteristic	Agree	Disagree		Agree	Disagree	Agree	Disagree	Agree	Disagree	Agree	Disagree

Total	93.0	7.0		86.1	13.9	82.9	17.1	86.5	13.5	85.1	14.9

Sex
Male	92.0	8.0		86.0	14.0	83.4	16.6	86.7	13.3	83.1	16.9
Female	93.9	6.1		86.3	13.7	82.3	17.7	86.3	13.7	87.1	12.9

Race/ethnicity¹
White, non-Hispanic	93.3	6.7		88.2	11.8	82.4	17.6	86.8	13.2	84.7	15.3
Black, non-Hispanic	92.1	7.9		77.9	22.1	79.4	20.6	85.0	15.0	85.0	15.0
Hispanic	93.0	7.0		85.2	14.8	86.2	13.8	85.5	14.5	87.1	12.9
Other, non-Hispanic	91.5	8.5		87.4	12.6	86.4	13.6	89.5	10.5	83.4	16.6

Grade
6th	91.9	8.1		89.3	10.7	91.7	8.3	91.4	8.6	85.3	14.7
7th	92.1	7.9		88.7	11.3	89.9	10.1	90.5	9.5	87.0	13.0
8th	93.8	6.2		85.8	14.2	85.6	14.4	89.5	10.5	84.3	15.7
9th	92.1	7.9		87.0	13.0	84.8	15.2	84.9	15.1	84.5	15.5
10th	92.5	7.5		83.1	16.9	81.4	18.6	85.3	14.7	86.5	13.5
11th	93.7	6.3		82.8	17.2	73.7	26.3	81.9	18.1	82.6	17.4
12th	94.3	5.7		86.9	13.1	73.8	26.2	82.8	17.2	85.2	14.8

Household income
Less than $7,500	92.2	7.8	!	74.9	25.1	83.9	16.1	87.3	12.7	86.2	13.8
$7,500–14,999	91.2	8.8		83.2	16.8	82.3	17.7	83.8	16.2	83.0	17.0
$15,000–24,999	91.3	8.7		81.6	18.4	79.9	20.1	85.7	14.3	84.8	15.2
$25,000–34,999	92.0	8.0		83.4	16.6	81.5	18.5	84.9	15.1	85.5	14.5
$35,000–49,999	95.1	4.9		85.0	15.0	83.1	16.9	86.8	13.2	87.6	12.4
$50,000 or more	93.2	6.8		90.0	10.0	84.0	16.0	87.5	12.5	84.3	15.7

Urbanicity²
Urban	92.1	7.9		83.9	16.1	82.8	17.2	85.3	14.7	83.5	16.5
Suburban	93.5	6.5		87.6	12.4	83.7	16.3	87.5	12.5	85.7	14.3
Rural	92.6	7.4		85.0	15.0	80.3	19.7	85.5	14.5	85.7	14.3

Self-report of grades at school³
Mostly A's	93.9	6.1		91.3	8.7	85.2	14.8	87.9	12.1	86.5	13.5
Mostly B's	93.3	6.7		86.5	13.5	83.5	16.5	87.1	12.9	85.0	15.0
Mostly C's	91.7	8.3		80.1	19.9	79.4	20.6	84.3	15.7	84.0	16.0
Mostly D's	89.8	10.2		66.2	33.8	71.8	28.2	81.4	18.6	78.3	21.7
Mostly F's	79.0	21.0		69.4	30.6	74.2	25.8	74.5	25.5	64.5	35.5

Student report of violent victimization at school⁴
Yes	88.2	11.8		72.1	27.9	65.4	34.6	70.5	29.5	73.2	26.8
No	93.0	7.0		86.3	13.7	83.1	16.9	86.7	13.3	85.2	14.8

Student report of theft victimization at school⁴
Yes	88.2	11.8		76.3	23.7	71.7	28.3	79.3	20.7	80.4	19.6
No	93.2	6.8		86.5	13.5	83.3	16.7	86.8	13.2	85.3	14.7

Sector
Public	92.5	7.5		85.6	14.4	82.4	17.6	86.0	14.0	84.6	15.4
Private	97.8	2.2		91.6	8.4	88.2	11.8	91.6	8.4	89.7	10.3
! Interpret data with caution.
¹ "Other, non-Hispanic" includes Asians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians (including Alaska Natives). Beginning in 2003, students were given the option of identifying themselves as more than one race. Non-Hispanic students who identified themselves as more than one race in 2003 (1 percent of all respondents) were included in the "other, non-Hispanic" category. Respondents who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race.
² Urbanicity refers to the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status of the respondent's household as defined in 1990 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
³ Students who responded that their schools did not give grades or there was no alphabetical equivalent are not reported.
⁴ Victimization data are taken from the National Crime Victimization Survey Incident Report.
NOTE: "Violent" victimization includes serious violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) and simple assault. "At school" includes inside the school building, on school property, on a school bus, and on the way to and from school. Population size for students ages 12–18 was 25,684,000 in 2003. Response options to the 2003 SCS questionnaire item include strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. For purposes of presenting the data in this table, "agree" includes "strongly agree" and "agree," and "disagree" includes "disagree" and "strongly disagree." Detail may not sum to 100 percent because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2003.

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