Reduce injuries, disabilities, and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence. Reduce weapon carrying by adolescents on school property. Better than the best. Data have not been analyzed. Data are not collected.
Data are statistically unreliable.
In 1998, physical assault victimization among adolescents took place twice as often as in the general population of persons age 12 years or older. Assaults were significantly higher among males. In 1997, 36.6 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 had been in a physical fight one or more times during the 12 months preceding the survey. Overall, male students were significantly more likely than female students to have been in a physical fight. This difference was identified for all racial and ethnic and grade subgroups.