U. S. Education Statistics

Indicators of School Crime and Safety

Description: Profiles school crime and violence in the U.S. through student and teacher victim reports, disciplinary reports, and other data. Jointly produced by NCES and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data are not downloadable as tabular files.

• 2000- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001017. Text in HTML and PDF, Tables in Excel format);
• 1999- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=1999057. PDF only.
• 1998- http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/safety/. HTML or PDF. Also available in paper: Docs. ED 1.102:C 86.

Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98030

An Overview of Research on Girls and Violence
http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/choices/briefs/choices01.html

Description: Issue Number 1 of CHOICES Briefs, produced by Choices in Preventing Youth Violence, an initiative of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education of the Teachers College, Columbia University.

Report with Recommendations

Annual Report on School Safety (October 1998)
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/AnnSchoolRept98/

Description: Summary statistics, charts and graphs, recommendations for communities, model programs, resources. For more detailed data, see Indicators of School Crime and Safety (left).

See also: North Carolina