Motor vehicle traffic control |
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45.6 |
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Security enforcement and patrol |
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55.7 |
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Maintaining school discipline |
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41.7 |
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Coordinating with local police and emergency team(s) |
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58.8 |
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Identifying problems in the school and proactively seeking solutions to those problems |
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51.2 |
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Training teachers and staff in school safety or crime prevention |
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32.6 |
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Mentoring students |
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43.3 |
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Teaching a law-related education course or training students2 |
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24.1 |
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Recording or reporting discipline problems to school authorities |
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48.9 |
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Providing information to school authorities about the legal definitions of behavior for recording or reporting purposes3 |
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49.8 |
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1Only schools indicating a sworn law enforcement officer (including School Resource Officers) were present at least once a week were included. |
2Examples of law-related education courses include drug-related education, criminal law, or crime prevention courses. |
3An example of legal definitions is defining assault for school authorities. |
NOTE: Middle schools are defined as schools in which the lowest grade is not lower than grade 4 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 9. Responses were provided by the principal or the person most knowledgeable about crime and safety issues at the school. |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2016. |