Table 8. High school students who felt sad or hopeless**†, who seriously considered attempting suicide**, and who made a plan about how they would attempt suicide** by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade in percent
			Felt Sad or				Seriously Considered				Made a Suicide
			Hopeless**†				Attempting Suicide**				Plan**
			Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total
Galveston*
	Race/ethnicity
	White		33.2	20.2	27.5		16.3	10.7	14.1		9.7	7.7	8.8
	Black		25.7	17.9	22.6		12.8	9.4	11.3		8.4	8.5	8.7
	Hispanic		43.2	25.3	34.4		15.4	7.3	11.3		13.1	7.1	10.2
	All other		30.0	27.4	30.5		17.4	16.2	17.0		18.6	15.3	16.3
	Grade
	9		34.6	22.3	28.6		17.2	10.5	13.6		13.4	7.9	10.2
	10		34.6	24.1	30.0		13.6	9.4	12.0		9.5	9.0	9.7
	11		35.4	20.4	29.3		17.4	7.6	12.7		14.9	6.5	11.2
	12		31.8	19.1	26.6		11.3	9.7	11.0		6.7	10.6	8.5
	2007 Total*		34.2	22.1	28.4		15.0	9.6	12.5		11.3	8.6	10.0
Texas*			39.4	23.6	31.4		21.0	10.8	15.9		15.1	9.4	12.2
United States*			36.7	20.4	28.5		21.8	12.0	16.9		16.2	9.9	13.0
*Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2007, Texas 2005, and United States 2005.
†Almost every day for ≥ 2 weeks in a row so that they stopped doing some usual activities.
** During the 12 months preceding the survey.
White = non-Hispanic white,  Hispanic = any race,  Black = non-Hispanic black, All other  = any other, non-Hispanic.