Establishing good indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation—and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators—is important in ensuring the safety of our nation’s students. This is the aim of Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2011, just released in February of this year. This is the 14th report in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), in the U.S. Department of Education, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the U.S. Department of Justice. This report presents the most recent data available on school crime and student safety.
Although the majority of the research involves public schools, the statistics are still of interest to private-independent schools that strive to maintain a “safe haven” for their students.
You can see the full report in the Research area of the ISM Web site.
While you’re in the Research area, you may want to also check out the newly posted reports:
