The National Center for Education Statistics have reported a decrease in the percentage of high-school students to whom drugs were made available on campus.
The NCES report shows that the percentage has dropped from 24 in 1993 to 22.7 in 2009.
In particular, males reported a 5.7 percent decrease, while the female percentage actually increased by .2 percent. The report also shows that the two ethnicities whose percentages increased were for Blacks (from 17.5 to 22.2 percent) and American Indians (20.9 to 34 percent in 2009).
High-school seniors reported fewer cases than the freshmen class, yet 11th graders showed the highest perentage of 24.3 percent.
The data had previously included statistical breakdown based on the urbanicity, yet this was not available for 2005 – 2009.
The full report can be found here.
Fewer Students Report Availability of Drugs on High-School Property
February 16, 2011
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