Updates on Student Reports of Bullying

 

The National Center for Education Statistics is releasing new Web Tables, School Crime Supplement Table Library: Results From the 2022 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. The tables provide national-level estimates of bullying among students ages 12–18 enrolled in grades 6–12 in U.S. public and private schools. The tables show how bullying victimization varies by student and school characteristics such as sex, race/ethnicity, grade, household income, region, urbanicity, enrollment size, and school poverty. These tables include a special focus on: the power imbalance between the bullying perpetrator and the victim, as well as the degree to which students experienced bullying repeatedly; the types of bullying students experienced; the perceived relationship between bullying and a student’s identity or personal characteristics; hate-related speech at school; students’ feelings of safety at school and in the surrounding neighborhood; bullying online or  by text; the effects of bullying on students’ academic performance, physical and social-emotional health; school policies and practices related to crime and safety at school; and the availability of alcohol and drugs at school. Key findings include the following: During the 2021–22 school year, among students ages 12–18 enrolled in grades 6–12 in U.S. public and private schools: Nineteen percent of students reported being bullied, including 17 percent of males and 22 percent of females. Twenty-three percent of students reported seeing hate-related graffiti at school and 7 percent reported being called a hate-related word during school. Among students who were bullied, 78 percent reported only being bullied in-person, 8 percent reported only being bullied online or by text, and 14 percent reported being bullied both in-person and online or by text. Among students who were bullied both in-person and online or by text, 30 percent reported a negative effect on their schoolwork. Among all students in grades 6–12, twenty-seven percent reported marijuana was available during school, followed by 13 percent reporting alcohol, 12 percent reporting prescription drugs, 10 percent reporting opioids, and 8 percent reporting other illegal drugs. These tables are based on data from the 2022 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) appended additional data from the 2020–21 Common Core of Data (CCD) and the 2019–20 Private School Universe Survey (PSS) to the SCS data to show the extent to which bullying victimization is reported by students in schools with different characteristics. View the tables.