The plan was successful, and most of the lunchroom fighting stopped. At the beginning of the project, just over half of the students reported that they were almost never afraid of being hurt or bothered at school. Additionally, actual incidents of violence appeared to decline at the test school. At the control school, student fighting increased from 16 percent reporting having been involved in a fight at the beginning of the project year to 18 percent at the project's end. Similarly, the number of students reporting having witnessed a teacher being threatened by a student increased from 53 percent to 58 percent at the control school.
Police calls for service also declined at the test school.
At the project's start, the number of calls for service was about equal between the project school and the control school. In addition, disciplinary actions at the project school dropped by 23 percent. However, the project did not appear to affect teachers' feelings of safety in their classrooms. At the control school, teachers reporting feeling unsafe in their own classrooms increased from 9 percent to 11 percent during the same time period. In neither the test school nor the control school, however, were the differences statistically significant.