Multi-year Table 1.Number of school resource officers, number of public schools, and the number of public schools with school resource officers, by full- and part-time school resource officer status: 2003–04 through 2015–16

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Multi-year Table 1. Number of school resource officers, number of public schools, and the number of public schools with school resource officers, by full- and part-time school resource officer status: 2003–04 through 2015–16

Characteristic		2003–04		2005–06		2007–08		2009–10		2015–16
Public school resource officers		34,000		36,700		46,100		40,200		52,100
Full-time public school resource officers		16,100		19,400		24,500		21,100		28,600
Part-time public school resource officers		18,000		17,300		21,700		19,100		23,500

Public schools¹		80,500		83,200		83,000		82,800		83,600
Public schools with school resource officers		26,000		26,900		29,400		25,700		35,100
Public schools with full-time school resource officers		13,900		15,700		15,900		14,700		18,300
Public schools with part-time school resource officers		15,700		14,900		17,000		13,000		17,600
¹Detail may not sum to totals because schools that reported both full-time and part-time school resource officers are only counted once in this total.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. School resource officers includes all career law enforcement officers with arrest authority, who have specialized training and are assigned to work in collaboration with school organizations. In 2003–04, schools reported on school resource officers present at their school on a regular basis. In 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, and 2015–16, schools reported on school resource officers present at their school at least once a week. The number of school resource officers includes both full- and part-time school resource officers. The number of schools with school resource officers is defined as those schools providing a non-zero response to the count of school resource officers question.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), 2016.

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