Violence in schools is one of the main concerns in Latin American countries and is one of the main threats for schools to be effective in providing high-quality education. For this work, data from ICCS 2016 is used to fit decision trees and cluster robust logistic regression models to explore how some schools immersed in violent environments manage to be resilient to violence. Our results show that the variables most consistently associated with higher probabilities of a school being resilient to violence are those related to the students’ attitudes and to a lesser extent, students’ civic knowledge and family background. The paper concludes by discussing the possible policy and practice implications in the context of each of the countries analysed.

学校暴力是拉丁美洲国家的主要问题之一，也是学校有效提供高质量教育的主要威胁之一。在这项工作中，来自 ICCS 2016 的数据用于拟合决策树和聚类稳健的逻辑回归模型，以探索一些沉浸在暴力环境中的学校如何设法抵御暴力。我们的研究结果表明，与学校抵御暴力的可能性较高最相关的变量是与学生态度相关的变量，而在较小程度上与学生的公民知识和家庭背景相关的变量。本文最后讨论了在所分析的每个国家的背景下可能的政策和实践影响。