Table 1.

Suicide Ideation, Help-Seeking and School Engagement for Students by Ethnic/Race group (n=4,122)

	All Schools			All Schools
		Female			Male
	White	African American	Latina	White	African American	Latino
Suicidal Ideation (SI) Past Year	16% 241/1502	13% 48/380	20%a** 63/317	10% 118/1238	9% 30/339	14%a** 47/346
Disclosed SI to an adult	25% 58/232	29% 12/41	22% 13/58	21% 23/112	25% 7/28	28% 13/47
Tried to get help for SI	34% 77/230	28% 11/40	42% 23/55	34% 38/112	21% 6/28	32% 15/47
School Engagement (SD)	2.59 (0.65)	2.56 (0.69)	2.45 (0.72)	2.38 (0.68)	2.63 (0.66)	2.45 (0.62)

^aLatino vs. African American;

^**p<.001

NOTE: “All Schools” = all 14 schools in NY and GA

NOTE: Due to non-response from some adolescents regarding disclosure, proportions for female disclosure are different within ethnic/racial groups

NOTE: A higher mean from these four questions represented a higher level of school engagement (α=0.63).