Table 32. Percentage of middle school students who had ever seriously thought about killing themselves, who had ever made a plan about how to kill themselves, and who had ever tried to kill themselves by gender, race/ethnicity, grade, and middle school in percent
			Seriously Thought About				Made a Plan About How				Tried to Kill
			Killing Themselves				To Kill Themselves				Themselves
			Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total
Galveston*
	Race/ethnicity
	White		26.4	14.2	20.4		12.0	11.0	11.8		11.3	5.8	8.7
	Black		24.4	20.0	22.1		15.0	7.6	11.0		12.8	8.1	10.3
	Hispanic		26.5	15.3	20.8		12.7	9.1	10.7		13.9	4.1	8.9
	All other		23.5	19.4	22.7		8.1	12.9	11.3		9.4	9.8	9.4
	Grade
	6		19.1	15.9	17.5		9.1	7.5	8.2		9.1	5.3	7.1
	7		25.1	14.6	20.1		13.6	6.6	10.2		10.1	4.0	6.8
	8		30.7	19.9	25.3		14.7	14.4	14.7		17.9	9.3	13.7
	Middle School
	Austin		23.9	15.0	19.5		13.0	9.2	10.9		11.7	6.5	8.6
	Central		28.0	16.1	21.8		13.3	8.7	11.0		13.4	7.0	10.2
	Crenshaw		28.0	12.5	19.6		8.0	4.2	5.9		4.0	4.2	3.9
	Weis		23.6	18.8	21.5		11.8	10.7	11.6		12.6	5.9	9.3
	2007 Total*		25.3	16.8	21.1		12.4	9.4	10.9		12.4	6.4	9.3
	Dallas ISD, TX*		35.1	18.8	26.9		21.3	10.8	16.0		15.5	9.2	12.4
*Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2007, and Dallas ISD, TX 2003.
White = non-Hispanic white,  Hispanic = any race,  Black = non-Hispanic black, All other  = any other non-Hispanic