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School Safety
Recent research associates a number of negative factors with students not feeling safe at school. For example, students with such feelings have been found to be more likely than those who feel safe to skip school, carry a weapon to school, have difficulty paying attention at school, and demonstrate poor academic achievement (Bluestein 2001). Overall, 38 percent of youth with disabilities report feeling "very safe" at school, and 55 percent report being "pretty safe"; in contrast, 8 percent report feeling "not very safe" or "not safe at all" at school. These reports are quite similar to the 31 percent of youth in the general population who "strongly agree" that they feel safe in their school, the 57 percent who "agree," and the 12 percent who "disagree" or "strongly disagree" with a sense of safety at school.33
33 Calculated for 15- through 19-year-olds using data from Wave II youth interviews of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1996 (Udry 1998). Note that the NLTS2 and Add Health items differ in that NLTS2 asked youth to report the degree of their feeling of safety (e.g., "very safe") whereas Add Health asked youth their degree of agreement with the statement "you feel safe in your school" (e.g., "strongly agree").