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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Youth Adolesc. 2020 Jul 24;50(2):353–366. doi: 10.1007/s10964-020-01297-9

Table 1.

Demographic and descriptive statistics across sexual orientation and gender identity

Sexual orientation
Gender identity
Non-LGBQ (n = 35,471)
LGBQ (n = 3401)
Non-transgender (n = 38,419)
Transgender (n = 453)
%/Mean (SD) n %/Mean (SD) n %/Mean (SD) n %/Mean (SD) n

Grade
 6th-8th 3.70% 1294 3.96% 134 3.71% 1405 5.13% 23
 9th-10th 53.71% 18,760 54.42% 1842 53.78% 20,365 52.90% 237
 11th-12th 42.40% 14,811 41.24% 1396 42.32% 16,026 40.40% 181
 Other grade/ungraded 0.19% 66 0.38% 13 0.19% 72 1.56% 7
Age 15.18 (1.27) 34,981 15.17 (1.32) 3383 15.18 (1.27) 37,914 15.16 (149) 450
Sex
 Female 49.30% 17,124 62.19% 2074 50.58% 19,041 36.85% 157
 Male 50.70% 17,613 37.81% 1261 49.42% 18,605 63.15% 269
Race
 American Indian/Alaskan Native 3.00% 1065 3.76% 128 3.03% 1164 6.40% 29
 Asian 13.06% 4634 12.79% 435 13.07% 5023 10.15% 46
 Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 4.32% 1533 5.03% 171 2.19% 843 3.09% 14
 African American 2.20% 780 2.26% 77 4.33% 1665 8.61% 39
 White 32.39% 11,490 29.05% 988 32.14% 12,348 28.70% 130
 Multiple 31.79% 11,276 35.96% 1223 32.12% 12,341 34.88% 158
 No race reported 13.23% 4693 11.14% 379 13.11% 5035 8.17% 37
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 44.51% 15,370 44.83% 1487 44.50% 16,652 48.35% 205
 Non-Hispanic 55.49% 19,158 55.17% 1830 55.50% 20,769 51.65% 219
Homophobic bullying
 Yes 5.54% 1861 31.54% 1057 7.56% 2757 36.93% 161
 No 94.46% 31,702 68.46% 2294 92.44% 33,721 63.07% 275
School climate (L1) 0.02 (0.63) 34,966 −0.18 (0.67) 3401 0.01 (0.64) 37,890 −0.36 (0.74) 453

School climate means are based on standardized scores