** Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
鈥淥n school property鈥 was not defined for survey respondents. The term 鈥渁nywhere鈥 is not used in the YRBS questionnaire; students are simply asked how many times in the last 12 months they had been in a physical fight.
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Physical fights among U.S. students by ethnic group, by ethnicity 2021
In 2021, about聽5.4 percent of white students in the United States reported that they were involved in a physical fight on school property at least one time during the previous 12 months. However, 17.3聽percent of white students reported being in a fight anywhere in that same year.
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