Availabilty of drugs in High School

Student reports of availability of drugs
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics on drug usage and availability does annual studies to young people in America. These studies give us a glimpse of the environment that young people experience at school and in their everyday lives as it relates to drugs and there avilibility.
In 2003, 29% of all students in grades 9 through 12 reported someone had offered, sold, or given them an illegal drug on school property. This was an increase from 1993 when 24% of such students reported that illegal drugs were available to them on school property. In 1999, 37% of students ages 12 through 18 reported that marijuana, cocaine, crack, or upper/downers were available at school. In previous School Crime Supplement (SCS) data indicated that 63.2% of students ages 12 through 18 in 1989, and 65.3 in 1995 reported drugs were available at school.
The availability of drugs was reported more often by public school students than private school students by (16%). Public schools students (38.4%) and private school students (22.4%). Students in upper grades had a (57.0%) availability of encountering where as students in lower grades only a (9.6%). Similar rates of drug availability were reported by white students (39.5%) and black students (33.6%). Students residing in suburban areas had a (39.5%) availability of drugs, where as students in urban areas (33.7%), and rural areas (34.3%)

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Are America's Schools Safe? Students Speak Out: 1999 School Crime Supplement, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2004