Title: Bullying Statistics - National Bullying Prevention Center
Headings: Bullying statistics
Bullying statistics
Rates of Incidence
Effects of Bullying
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying Among Tweens (9-12 Years Old)
Bullying of Students with Disabilities
Bullying of Students of Color
Bullying of Students Who Identify or Are Perceived as LGBTQ
Bullying and Suicide
Interventions
Bystanders
References:

Content: the hallway or stairwell at school (43%), inside the classroom (42%), in the cafeteria (27%), outside on school grounds (22%), online or by text (15%), in the bathroom or locker room (12%), and on the school bus (8%). ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019)
46% of bullied students report notifying an adult at school about the incident. ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019)
School-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to 25%. ( McCallion & Feder, 2013)
The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students include physical appearance, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation. ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019)
The federal government began collecting data on school bullying in 2005, when the prevalence of bullying was around 28 percent. ( U.S. Department of Education, 2015 )
Rates of bullying vary across studies (from 9% to 98%). A meta-analysis of 80 studies analyzing bullying involvement rates (for both bullying others and being bullied) for 12-18 year old students reported a mean prevalence rate of 35% for traditional bullying involvement and 15% for cyberbullying involvement. ( Modecki, Minchin, Harbaugh, Guerra, & Runions, 2014 )
One in five (20.9%) tweens (9 to 12 years old) has been cyberbullied, cyberbullied others, or seen cyberbullying. ( Patchin & Hinduja, 2020)
49.8% of tweens (9 to 12 years old) said they experienced bullying at school and 14.5% of tweens shared they experienced bullying online. ( Patchin & Hinduja, 2020)
13% of tweens (9 to 12 years old) reported experiencing bullying at school and online, while only 1% reported being bullied solely online. (