one out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015).

19.6% of high school students in the US report being bullied at school in the past year. 14.8% reported being bullied online (Center for Disease Control, 2014).

64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36 percent reported the bullying (Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, and Hanson, 2010). 

School-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to 25% (McCallion and Feder, 2013). 

The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%) (Davis and Nixon, 2010).