KY
Centre College
10.68 incidents / 1,000 students
Danville, KY · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Centre College
Across 2022–2024, Centre College reported 23 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Georgetown College.
- 10.68
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,952
- Rank of 2,072
- #48
- KY rank
- 1,404
- Enrolled students
10.68 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Centre College's 2024 score-category rate is 10.68 per 1,000 (national rank #1,952). From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 9 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Georgetown College (0.74/1k); Union Commonwealth University (0.00/1k); Berea College (7.86/1k); Spalding University (5.15/1k); Asbury Theological Seminary (2.37/1k); Transylvania University (2.98/1k); Kentucky Wesleyan College (0.00/1k); Midway University (1.00/1k).
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 10.68
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,952
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 94%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 12
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 156408 · Centre College 10.68/1k score rate · #1,952/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 10.68/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,952/2,072
- ST-MID #48 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Vaughn College of Aeronautics · +10.68
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 100%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 1,404
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology (-10.68/1k)
Centre College sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology (-10.68/1k). National rank #1,952 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Centre College's 2024 score-category rate is 10.68 per 1,000 (national rank #1,952). From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 9 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Georgetown College (0.74/1k); Union Commonwealth University (0.00/1k); Berea College (7.86/1k); Spalding University (5.15/1k); Asbury Theological Seminary (2.37/1k); Transylvania University (2.98/1k); Kentucky Wesleyan College (0.00/1k); Midway University (1.00/1k).
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Centre College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Centre on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Vaughn College of Aeronautics · lowest peer 0
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Moore Norman Technology Center · near 0
Moore Norman Technology Center — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Logan University · near 0
Logan University — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Centre College · this campus · highest
Centre College — this campus · highest
10.68 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Centre College's 10.68/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Centre College increased from 5 to 12 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 KY 4-year peers in this comparison, Centre College is larger than 39% and safer-reporting than 3% - the smaller, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Centre College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Theological Seminary | 82 | 0.00 | 0 | 75 |
| Kentucky Mountain Bible College | 94 | 0.00 | 3 | 75 |
| Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary | 103 | 0.00 | 6 | 75 |
| Clear Creek Baptist Bible College | 183 | 21.86 | 8 | 0 |
| American National University-Pikeville | 444 | 2.25 | 11 | 42 |
| Simmons College of Kentucky | 506 | 3.95 | 14 | 28 |
| Beckfield College-Florence | 536 | 0.00 | 17 | 75 |
| Kentucky Christian University | 550 | 7.27 | 19 | 17 |
| Alice Lloyd College | 589 | 1.70 | 22 | 47 |
| Brescia University | 690 | 8.70 | 25 | 6 |
| Kentucky Wesleyan College | 887 | 0.00 | 28 | 75 |
| Centre College (this campus) | 1,404 | 10.68 | 39 | 3 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Centre College rose from 5 to 12 (+140%). The increase shows up in Burglary (1 to 10) and Fondling (0 to 2). Falling over the same period: Rape (4 to 0).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Centre College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 3 Clery Act categories here: Burglary, Rape and Fondling. Burglary accounts for most of them.
The remaining 8 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Incest and Motor Vehicle Theft. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyCentre College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 100% (6 → 12 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| Rape | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Fondling | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 37 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 37 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 24 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 34 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 8 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 36 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Centre College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
NY
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
OK
Moore Norman Technology Center
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Centre College sits on price and outcomes
At $20,781, Centre College's reported average net price is cheaper than 70% among 79 Kentucky colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $16,512.
- $20,781
- average net price
- $16,512
- Kentucky median
- 1.9×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $19,207
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $11,364, while those above $110,000 record $30,571 - roughly 2.7 times as much. A published average of $20,781 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six-year median earnings of $50,073 run about 2.4 times the annual net price. The margin is real but narrow, so how many years of price a student actually pays matters a great deal here.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $52,820
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $52,820
- Avg Net Price
- $20,781
- Median Debt
- $27,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 23%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 54%
- SAT Average
- 1352
- SAT Math Range
- 570-730
- ACT Average
- 30
- ACT Range
- 25-32
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 83%
- Retention Rate
- 88%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $50,073
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $66,240
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 85%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,275 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Flushing, NY · 1,405 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Moore Norman Technology Center
Norman, OK · 1,403 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Logan University
Chesterfield, MO · 1,406 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
University of South Carolina-Union
Union, SC · 1,402 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
East Arkansas Community College
Forrest City, AR · 1,401 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Closest by National Rank
Centre College (national rank #1952) sits near Babson College (#1951) and Middlebury College (#1953) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Centre College, both outside KY so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Flushing, NY · 1,405 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Logan University
Chesterfield, MO · 1,406 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Centenary University
Hackettstown, NJ · 1,398 enrolled
Safety score 7.15
Dickinson State University
Dickinson, ND · 1,410 enrolled
Safety score 1.42
Concordia University Texas
Austin, TX · 1,396 enrolled
Safety score 0.72
Dominican University New York
Orangeburg, NY · 1,396 enrolled
Safety score 7.16
SUNY Maritime College
Throggs Neck, NY · 1,413 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA · 1,393 enrolled
Safety score 16.51
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Babson College
Wellesley, MA · 3,932 enrolled
Safety score 10.68
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT · 2,803 enrolled
Safety score 10.70
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, NC · 2,258 enrolled
Safety score 10.63
Earlham College
Richmond, IN · 753 enrolled
Safety score 10.62
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, VT · 1,323 enrolled
Safety score 10.58
Knox College
Galesburg, IL · 1,136 enrolled
Safety score 10.56
Texas Lutheran University
Seguin, TX · 1,423 enrolled
Safety score 10.54
Stetson University
Deland, FL · 3,775 enrolled
Safety score 10.86
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Centre College safe?
Centre College has a safety score of 10.68 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,952 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Georgetown College (0.74/1k); Union Commonwealth University (0.00/1k); Berea College (7.86/1k); Spalding University (5.15/1k); Asbury Theological Seminary (2.37/1k); Transylvania University (2.98/1k); Kentucky Wesleyan College (0.00/1k); Midway University (1.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Centre College?
For calendar year 2024, Centre College reported Burglary (10) and Fondling (2) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Centre College compare to similar schools?
A similar-enrollment comparison point is Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology at 0.00 score-category incidents per 1,000 in KY; same-state same-level scored peers include Georgetown College (0.74/1k); Union Commonwealth University (0.00/1k); Berea College (7.86/1k); Spalding University (5.15/1k); Asbury Theological Seminary (2.37/1k); Transylvania University (2.98/1k); Kentucky Wesleyan College (0.00/1k); Midway University (1.00/1k).
Does Centre College have fire safety data?
Yes. Centre College reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. No fires were reported in the most recent year.
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