Facts and Statistics

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• 90% of students in grades 4-8 report having been harassed or bullied.

• 28% of students in grades 6-12 experience bullying.

• 20% of students in grades 9-12 experience bullying. (stopbullying.gov)

• In grades 6-12, 9% of students have experienced cyberbullying.

• Over 160,000 kids refuse to go to school each day for fear of being bullied. (Nation Education Association)

• 70.6% of students report having witnessed bullying in their school–and over 71% say bullying is a problem.

• Over 10% of students who dropout of school do so due to being bullied repeatedly.

• Each month 282,000 students are physically assaulted in some way in secondary schools throughout the United States–and the number is growing.

• Statistics suggest that revenge [due to bullying] is the number one motivator for school shootings in the U.S.

• 86% of students surveyed said, “other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them” is the number one reason that teenagers turn to lethal violence at school.

• Nearly 75% of school shootings have been linked to harassment and bullying.

• 87% of students surveyed report that bullying is the primary motivator of school shootings.

• 64% of students who are bullied do not report it. (Petrosina, Guckenburg, Devoe and Hanson 2010)