The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) monitors a wide range of priority health risk behaviors among representative samples of high school students at the national, state, and local levels.

Link to the CDC
Link to Connecticut information
Review some recent YRBS data shown in the Effective School Staff Interactions with Students and Police training.

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American students and young adults funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Monitoring the Future Web Site

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

using youth behavior data

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Do you think kids of different races/ethnicities behave similarly?

There are two major youth survey data sources in the United States that provide information that might answer this question.