This is part 3 in a 4-part series of findings from the 2025 Youth Washington Muslim Survey.
Girls are more likely to experience discriminatory policies and practices. Girls may be slightly more likely to feel that their free speech has been limited.
Muslim students who are African or Black/African-American and African were more likely to be discouraged from pursuing their education and to feel that their teachers do not understand Islam or Muslims. We didn’t find any correlations for other racial or ethnic groups, or the sample sizes were too small to draw conclusions.
Feeling safe and supported at school, unsurprisingly, is correlated with lower levels of bullying and harassment across the board. Students who did not mark that they feel safe and supported, including in their Muslim identity, at school were more likely to: experience bullying; see offensive comments on social media more often; hear offensive comments from their teachers; feel that their free speech has been limited; feel that their teachers are not responsive to their needs as Muslim students; feel that their teachers do not understand Islam or Muslims; and to feel unsafe at school.
Muslim students who were not born in the U.S. did not report being more likely to experience bullying or discrimination.
Expanding our statistical significance to look at p-values under 0.1, visibly Muslim students may be more likely to experience discriminatory policies and practices, to feel that their teachers do not understand Islam or Muslims, and to feel that their free speech has been limited.