Crime in the nationfs schools continued to fall between 1992 and 2002, reflecting the decline in the national crime rate, according to this report. During these years, school crime dropped from 48 violent victimizations per 1,000 students to 24 per 1,000. Between 1995 and 2003, the percentage of students who reported being a victim of a crime of violence or theft at school also declined - from 10 percent to 5 percent. In 2002, as in previous years, students from 12-18 years of age were more likely to be victims of nonfatal serious violent crime away from school than at school. This report also provides new data on nonfatal student victimization, nonfatal victimization of teachers, students' perceptions of personal safety, gangs, students' reports of being bullied, avoiding places in school, being called hateful names or seeing hate-related graffiti, and students' reports of being threatened or injured with a weapon, being in fights, carrying weapons at school, using alcohol and marijuana and drug availability on school property.