2025 YRBS Data and Reports

The 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was completed by 1,451 students in 22 public high schools in San Diego Unified School District during the spring of 2025. The school response rate was 100%, the student response rate was 79.8%, and the overall response rate was 79.8%. The results in the tables and reports below are representative of all district students in grades 9-12.

The weighted demographic characteristics of the sample are as follows:

Female

47.7%

9th grade

26.5%

Asian

15.8%

Male

52.3%

10th grade

24.8%

Black*

6.9%

11th grade

24.9%

Hispanic/ Latino

43.6%

12th grade

23.4%

White*

23.3%

Other

0.4%

All other races*

2.5%

Multiple races*

7.9%

*Non-Hispanic

Students completed a self-administered, anonymous, 99-item questionnaire. Survey procedures were designed to protect the privacy of students by allowing for anonymous and voluntary participation. Local parental permission procedures were followed before survey administration.

The YRBS is one component of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with representatives from state and local departments of education and health, other federal agencies, and national education and health organizations. The YRBSS was designed to focus the nation on behaviors among youth related to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among both youth and adults and to assess how these risk behaviors change over time. The San Diego Unified High School YRBS will measure the following behaviors:

Protective factors in students lives;
Adverse childhood experiences;
Mental health;
Experiences with health education;
Alcohol, nicotine, and other drug use;
Relationship violence;
Sexual behaviors that can result in HIV/STI infection and unintended pregnancy;
Other behaviors that can result in intentional and unintentional injury and violence.