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According to the national census on school-based health centers taken by the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care for 2007-2008, SBHCs have grown from a handful of projects in the early seventies to now serving more than two million students per year in almost 2,000 centers in all but five states.1
SBHCs have won the endorsement of many communities, numerous professional organizations and bipartisan policymakers. They have proven their abilities to reduce barriers to preventive care and primary, mental health, and oral health care among historically underserved populations. SBHCs are increasingly recognized in anecdotal and peer-reviewed research for providing a cost effective means of reducing children’s unmet needs for care.
School-Based Health Centers, Health and Educational Success
- The Relationship Between School-Based Health Centers, Rates of Early Dismissal From School, and Loss of Seat Time
- Healthier Students are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap
- School-Based Health Centers: National Census School Year 2007-08
- What Do Registered Voters Think About School-Based Health Centers? — Omnibus Poll 2010
- Public K-12 Federal Educational Policy
- Selected Readings on the Case for a Movement for Health and Educational Equity
High School Graduation Rates
Learn more about the demographics and graduation rates of your local school districts. Compare your community’s rates of high school completion to neighboring districts and state or national averages. Find out about your district using the free tool from Education Week.
Measures of Well-Being
The Kids Count Data Center provides free access to data on hundreds of economic, demographic, education, health, safety and family measures of childhood well-being, (e.g. poverty, abuse and neglect, and school enrollment). State data can be viewed one at a time, or compared across states by indicator. View the national and state data on children, provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Key Issues
Preventing School Dropout
- Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue
- From Risk to Resilience: Promoting School–Health Partnerships for Children *
Health and Well-Being in Schools
- Healthier and Wealthier: Decreasing Health Care Costs by Increasing Educational Attainment
- The Relationship Between School-Based Health Centers and the Learning Environment
- Impact of School-Based Health Center Use on Academic Outcomes
- School-Based Health Centers and Academic Success
- Healthy Steps Toward Student Achievement
- National Assembly on School-Based Health Care: Keeping Students Healthy and Learning: SBHCs and Education
School Climate
Download Issue Brief: School Climate, Student Success and the Role of School-Based Health Care
- A Multilevel Investigation of the Association Between School Context and Adolescent Nonphysical Bullying
- The Relationship Between School-Based Health Centers and the Learning Environment
- National School Climate Center
Hunger and Obesity
Download Issue Brief: Understanding Hunger and Obesity and the Role for School-Based Health Care
- Food Choices and Diet Costs
- Who Pays in the Obesity War?
- F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America
- USDA Healthier Schools Challenge Criteria
- America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness
- Creating Access to Healthy, Affordable Food – Initiative Summary
- Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food and Transform Communities
School Violence
- NASBHC. National shool-based health care data. National data from school year 2007-08 census. http://www.nasbhc.org/site/c.jsJPKWPFJrH/b.2716675/k.9D3E/EQ_National_Data.htm. Accessed April 2011