U.S. schools - physical fights among students, by ethnicity 2019

In 2019, about 6.4 percent of white students in the United States reported that they were involved in a physical fight on school property at least one time during the previous 12 months. However, 19.8 percent of white students reported being in a fight anywhere in that same year.

Percentage of students in grades 9–12 who reported having been in a physical fight in the U.S. in 2019, by location and ethnicity

Characteristic	Anywhere	On school property
White	19.8%	6.4%
Black	30.2%	15.5%
Hispanic*	22.6%	7.8%
Asian	12%	4.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native	40.2%	18.9%
Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian	18.2%	9.1%
Two or more races	28.7%	11%
Total	21.9%	8%

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Release date

September 2020

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United States

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

* Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
“On school property” was not defined for survey respondents. The term “anywhere” is not used in the YRBS questionnaire; students are simply asked how many times in the last 12 months they had been in a physical fight.

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