25 Interesting Facts About Hazing

High School Hazing

1. 1.5 million high school students are hazed each year.¹
2. 91% of all H.S. students belong to at least one group, and half of them, 48% report being subjected to hazing activities.¹
3. 43% were subjected to humiliating activities and 30% performed potentially illegal acts as part of their initiation.¹
4. Both male and female students report high levels of hazing.¹
5. Every kind of high school group was involved in hazing including 24% of the students involved in church groups.¹
6. 10% of all college students admit to being hazed in high school.²
7. 79% of the NCAA Athletes report being hazed initially in high school.¹
8. 25% were first hazed before the age of 13.¹
9. 92% of the high school students will not report a hazing, and of these respondents, 59% know of hazing activities and 21% admit to being involved in hazing.¹
10. 48% of the students acknowledge participating in activities which are defined as hazing, 29% did potentially illegal things to join a group, however only 14% admit to being hazed. This underscored the "disconnect" between how adults define hazing vs. how students define it.¹

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