Table 1.
Differences in School and Student Characteristics by SBHC presence in School.
| Variables | Total sample |
SBHC schools |
Non-SBHC schools |
Effect size (Cohen’s d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| School level | N = 137 | n = 26 | n = 111 | |
| Middle/high school, n (%) | 35 (25.6) | 5 (19.2) | 30 (27.0) | 0.08 |
| High school, n (%) | 102 (74.4) | 21 (80.8) | 81 (73.0) | −0.08 |
| Student enrollment, M (SD) | 697 (634) | 1030 (767) | 619 (575)** | 0.67 |
| Mean proportion of free/reduced price lunch, M (SD) | 52.0 (18.1) | 51.5 (15.4) | 52.2 (18.8) | 0.05 |
| Student level | N = 13,608 | n = 4,067 | n = 9,541 | |
| Age, M (SD) | 16.6 (0.9) | 16.6 (0.9) | 16.6 (0.9)* | 0.02 |
| Female, n (%) | 6804 (50.2) | 2042 (50.1) | 4762 (50.2) | 0.0003 |
| Hispanic, n (%) | 3135 (23.6) | 876 (19.4) | 2259 (25.4)** | 0.08 |
| White, n (%) | 10509 (89.3) | 3058 (86.9) | 7451 (90.4)** | 0.06 |
| Received free/reduced price lunch, n (%) | 4729 (39.7) | 1411 (35.8) | 3318 (41.3)*** | 0.06 |
| SMY, n (%) | 1166 (8.7) | 358 (8.5) | 808 (8.7) | 0.01 |
Note. High schools served as the reference groups for middle/high schools and vice versa. Male students, non-Hispanic students, non-White students, students who did not receive free or reduced-price lunch, and non-SMY served as the reference groups for the female, Hispanic, White, received free or reduced-price lunch, and SMY variables, respectively. School-level sample sizes were unweighted, while percentages of student-level study variables were obtained with sample weights. The value of the average student age in SBHC and non-SBHC schools appears the same due to rounding. SBHC = school-based health center; SMY = sexual minority youth.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.