KY
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College
0.52 incidents / 1,000 students
Bowling Green, KY · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College
Across 2022–2024, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College reported 4 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Arson). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Somerset Community College.
- 0.52
- Incidents / 1k students
- #347
- Rank of 2,072
- #24
- KY rank
- 5,825
- Enrolled students
0.52 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College reports 0.52 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 50% below Lake-Sumter State College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lake-Sumter State College (0.00/1k); Southeastern Oklahoma State University (0.85/1k); Merrimack College (1.88/1k); Olympic College (1.56/1k); Alvin Community College (0.85/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Somerset Community College (0.00/1k); Gateway Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); West Kentucky Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Elizabethtown Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Owensboro Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Maysville Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Madisonville Community College (0.00/1k); Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Arson.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.52
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #347
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 83%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 3
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 156338 · Southcentral Kentucky Community and 0.52/1k score rate · #347/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.52/1k
- RANK-UPPER #347/2,072
- ST-MID #24 in state
- BELOW-PEER Alvin Community College · 0.34 back
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Arson
- ENR-MID 5,825
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Alvin Community College (+0.34/1k)
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer Alvin Community College. 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-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Alvin Community College (+0.34/1k). National rank #347 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College reports 0.52 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 50% below Lake-Sumter State College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lake-Sumter State College (0.00/1k); Southeastern Oklahoma State University (0.85/1k); Merrimack College (1.88/1k); Olympic College (1.56/1k); Alvin Community College (0.85/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Somerset Community College (0.00/1k); Gateway Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); West Kentucky Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Elizabethtown Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Owensboro Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Maysville Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Madisonville Community College (0.00/1k); Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Arson.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Southcentral Kentucky Community
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Southcentral on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Lake-Sumter State College · lowest peer 0
Lake-Sumter State College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Southcentral Kentucky Community and · this campus 0.52
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College — this campus
0.52 per 1,000 students
- Alvin Community College · near
Alvin Community College — near
0.85 per 1,000 students
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University · near
Southeastern Oklahoma State University — near
0.85 per 1,000 students
- Merrimack College · highest peer
Merrimack College — highest peer
1.88 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College's 0.52/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College increased from 1 to 3 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 22 KY 2-year peers in this comparison, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College is larger than 81% and safer-reporting than 10% - the larger, 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.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 76, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 71, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 90, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 62, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 57, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 52, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 48, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 43, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 38, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 29, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 24, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 10, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 5, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 95, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 5
- Southcentral Kentucky Comm…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 10
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ross College-Hopkinsville | 90 | 0.00 | 0 | 19 |
| Interactive College of Technology-Newport | 101 | 0.00 | 5 | 19 |
| Galen Health Institutes-Pikeville | 169 | 0.00 | 10 | 19 |
| Galen College of Nursing-ARH | 350 | 0.00 | 14 | 19 |
| ATA College | 363 | 0.00 | 19 | 19 |
| MedQuest College | 524 | 0.00 | 24 | 19 |
| Henderson Community College | 1,944 | 0.00 | 29 | 19 |
| Hopkinsville Community College | 2,211 | 0.00 | 33 | 19 |
| Ashland Community and Technical College | 2,552 | 0.00 | 38 | 19 |
| Big Sandy Community and Technical College | 2,618 | 0.00 | 43 | 19 |
| Hazard Community and Technical College | 3,134 | 0.00 | 48 | 19 |
| Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College (this campus) | 5,825 | 0.52 | 81 | 10 |
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 Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College rose from 1 to 3 (+200%). The increase shows up in Arson (0 to 1), Fondling (0 to 1) and Robbery (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Burglary (1 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 Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 4 Clery Act categories here: Arson, Burglary, Fondling and Robbery.
The remaining 7 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Incest, Motor Vehicle Theft and Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter. 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 onlySouthcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arson | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Fondling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 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 |
| Rape | 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
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
54 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical 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).
FL
Lake-Sumter State College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
OK
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
0.85 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College sits on price and outcomes
At $3,537, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College's reported average net price is among the lowest reported prices among 79 Kentucky colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $16,512.
- $3,537
- average net price
- $16,512
- Kentucky median
- 3.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $6,649
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $3,152, while those above $110,000 record $9,801 - roughly 3.1 times as much. A published average of $3,537 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $32,195 - about 9.1 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. 55% complete within six years, so roughly 45% leave without the credential - and those students still carry whatever they paid.
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
- $4,728
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $6,432
- Avg Net Price
- $3,537
- Median Debt
- $10,175
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 33%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $32,195
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $34,242
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 49%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,024 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Lake-Sumter State College
Leesburg, FL · 5,810 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, OK · 5,851 enrolled
Safety Score 0.85
Merrimack College
North Andover, MA · 5,862 enrolled
Safety Score 1.88
Olympic College
Bremerton, WA · 5,784 enrolled
Safety Score 1.56
Alvin Community College
Alvin, TX · 5,872 enrolled
Safety Score 0.85
Closest by National Rank
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College (national rank #347) sits near Indian River State College (#348) and Lansing Community College (#346) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Indian River State College
Fort Pierce, FL
National Rank #348
Lansing Community College
Lansing, MI
National Rank #346
Northwest Mississippi Community College
Senatobia, MS
National Rank #345
Pitt Community College
Winterville, NC
National Rank #349
Anoka Technical College
Anoka, MN
National Rank #344
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical 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)
Alvin Community College
Alvin, TX · 5,872 enrolled
Safety score 0.85
Central Carolina Community College
Sanford, NC · 5,882 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Tri-County Technical College
Pendleton, SC · 5,890 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Northeast State Community College
Blountville, TN · 5,757 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Walters State Community College
Morristown, TN · 5,899 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Laurel Ridge Community College
Middletown, VA · 5,902 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
North Shore Community College
Danvers, MA · 5,743 enrolled
Safety score 0.87
Kapiolani Community College
Honolulu, HI · 5,914 enrolled
Safety score 0.17
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Pitt Community College
Winterville, NC · 7,684 enrolled
Safety score 0.52
Lansing Community College
Lansing, MI · 9,821 enrolled
Safety score 0.51
Northwest Mississippi Community College
Senatobia, MS · 7,867 enrolled
Safety score 0.51
Anoka Technical College
Anoka, MN · 1,970 enrolled
Safety score 0.51
Guilford Technical Community College
Jamestown, NC · 11,485 enrolled
Safety score 0.52
Savannah Technical College
Savannah, GA · 3,942 enrolled
Safety score 0.51
Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City, OK · 11,475 enrolled
Safety score 0.52
Patrick & Henry Community College
Martinsville, VA · 1,908 enrolled
Safety score 0.52
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College safe?
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College has a safety score of 0.52 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #347 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Lake-Sumter State College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Somerset Community College (0.00/1k); Gateway Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); West Kentucky Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Elizabethtown Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Owensboro Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Maysville Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Madisonville Community College (0.00/1k); Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College?
For calendar year 2024, Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College reported Arson (1), Fondling (1) and Robbery (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College compare to similar schools?
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College reports 50% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Lake-Sumter State College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Lake-Sumter State College (0.00/1k); Southeastern Oklahoma State University (0.85/1k); Merrimack College (1.88/1k); Olympic College (1.56/1k); Alvin Community College (0.85/1k). Same-state same-level set: Somerset Community College (0.00/1k); Gateway Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); West Kentucky Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Elizabethtown Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Owensboro Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Maysville Community and Technical College (0.00/1k); Madisonville Community College (0.00/1k); Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College (0.00/1k).
Does Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College have fire safety data?
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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