This study addresses the current situation of school violence in high schools in the Yucatán state, from the students' perspective. In the theoretical framework, school violence is analyzed from the general to the particular, that is, the impact of school violence in the country is mentioned until reaching the interested state. The methodology is supported by the unstructured questionnaire as a data collection technique, which allowed us to know more extensive answers from the 715 students surveyed about this problem in their schools. The results reveal that there is some inference in cases of bullying since the students do not always report such events. It was also found that some of the students prefer not to attend classes rather than ask for help from a teacher or principal.

school violence, bullying; basic education, secondary school, Yucatán, Mexico