Title: School Bullying Rates Increase by 35% from 2016 to 2019 - Cyberbullying Research Center
Headings: School Bullying Rates Increase by 35% from 2016 to 2019
School Bullying Rates Increase by 35% from 2016 to 2019
By Justin W. Patchin
17.4% of students said they were a target of cyberbullying in 2019, compared to 16.5% in 2016.
In 2019, over half of students said they had been bullied at school in the last 30 days.

Content: This time around, though, we measured some new risk and protective factors, including hope, empathy, social emotional health, digital citizenship and screen time to better understand how they relate to the choices kids make online. We always love getting new data, and will spend the summer diving into it and posting some of the results on this blog and across social media (along with writing formal academic papers). 17.4% of students said they were a target of cyberbullying in 2019, compared to 16.5% in 2016. Because cyberbullying has been our primary area of study for so long, I immediately looked at those numbers first. The percent of students who said they had been cyberbullied (or who had cyberbullied others) went up slightly from 2016 to 2019. With respect to victimization, 17.4% of students said they were a target of cyberbullying in 2019, compared to 16.5% in 2016. For offending, 6.3% said they had cyberbullied others in 2019 compared to 5.6% in 2016. These rates reflect what they had experienced in the previous 30 days, though we also saw small (but statistically insignificant) increases in the number of students who said they had ever been cyberbullied (or had cyberbullied others) in their lifetime. When it came to school bullying, however, there were some dramatic differences. In 2019, over half (52.3%) of students said they had been bullied at school in the past 30 days, compared to 38.6% in 2016 (a 35% increase).