Table 1.
Characteristics of the Total Sample and by Schools With and Without School-Based Health Centers: California Healthy Kids Survey, California, 2013–2014
| Total sample | Without School-Based Health Center | With School-Based Health Center | |||||
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| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | p-value | |
| STUDENT-LEVEL VARIABLES | |||||||
| Total Number of Participants (row percentage) | 300,000 | (100.0) | 263,108 | (87.7) | 36,892 | (12.3) | |
| Parent’s Highest Education Level | |||||||
| Less than high school degree | 46,662 | (15.6) | 39,180 | (14.9) | 7,482 | (20.3) | < .01 |
| High school degree | 52,510 | (17.5) | 45,049 | (17.1) | 7,461 | (20.2) | |
| Some college | 42,258 | (14.1) | 37,414 | (14.2) | 4,844 | (13.1) | |
| College degree | 115,479 | (38.5) | 104,871 | (39.9) | 10,608 | (28.8) | |
| Don’t know | 43,091 | (14.4) | 36,594 | (13.9) | 6,497 | (17.6) | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||
| Black | 11,559 | (3.9) | 8,927 | (3.4) | 2,632 | (7.1) | < .01 |
| White | 66,800 | (22.3) | 63,431 | (24.1) | 3,369 | (9.1) | |
| Hispanic/Latino | 148,809 | (49.6) | 131,706 | (50.1) | 17,103 | (46.4) | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 43,331 | (14.4) | 32,721 | (12.4) | 10,610 | (28.8) | |
| Other | 29,501 | (9.8) | 26,323 | (10.0) | 3,178 | (8.6) | |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 145,336 | (48.4) | 127,464 | (48.4) | 17,872 | (48.4) | 0.996 |
| Female | 154,664 | (51.6) | 135,644 | (51.6) | 19,020 | (51.6) | |
| Grade | |||||||
| 9th | 139,310 | (46.4) | 125,440 | (47.7) | 13,870 | (37.6) | < .01 |
| 10th | 23,724 | (7.9) | 17,545 | (6.7) | 6,179 | (16.7) | |
| 11th | 119,402 | (39.8) | 106,987 | (40.7) | 12,415 | (33.7) | |
| 12th | 17,564 | (5.9) | 13,136 | (5.0) | 4,428 | (12.0) | |
| SCHOOL-LEVEL VARIABLES | |||||||
| Total Number of Schools (row percentage) | 503 | (100.0) | 454 | (90.3) | 49 | (9.7) | |
| Total size of student body, mean (sd) | 1,618.3 | (846.5) | 1,615.0 | (849.0) | 1,649.7 | (830.9) | 0.786 |
| Percentage of student body that is White, mean (sd) | 30.7 | (23.7) | 32.8 | (23.6) | 12.1 | (15.5) | < .01 |
| Percentage of student body eligible for free/reduced price lunch, mean (sd) | 54.3 | (25.7) | 52.7 | (25.9) | 69.3 | (18.5) | < .01 |
Note. p-values were derived from chi-square tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables.