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School Survey on Crime and Safety, 2008

Published by National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | Department of Education | Metadata Last Checked: June 28, 2025 | Last Modified: 2023-07-10T14:27:33.253296
The School Survey on Crime and Safety, 2008 (SSOCS:2008), is a study that is part of the School Survey on Crime and Safety program. SSOCS:2008 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/) is a cross-sectional survey of the nation's public schools designed to provide estimates of school crime, discipline, disorder, programs and policies. SSOCS is administered to public primary, middle, high, and combined school principals in the spring of even-numbered school years. The study was conducted using a questionnaire and telephone follow-ups of school principals. Public schools were sampled in the spring of 2008 to participate in the study. The study's response rate was 74.5 percent. A number of key statistics on a variety of topics can be produced with SSOCS data.

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