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All USD 497 12 graders participate in a Communities That Care survey.  Here are some highlights from 2010:

  • 44%  reported drinking alcohol at least once in the past month.
  • 30%(who reported drinking in the past month) said that someone over 21 either bought it or gave it to them.
  • 53%(who reported drinking in the past month) said they drank at their house or a friend's house.
  • 72%  said that if they wanted to get alcohol it would be "sort of easy" or "very easy" (29%/43%)
  • 30% reported binge drinking* at least once in the past two weeks *had 5 or more alcoholic drinks in a row
  • 21% said that it is "not wrong at all" for a person their age to drink alcohol regularly.
  • 46% stated that if a friend offered them a drink containing alcohol they would drink it.