Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

Can anyone comment on the current prevalence of bullying in schools in the UK vs the USA? We have been considering moving from the Us to the UK but perceived higher likelihood of bullying for our mixed race kids is one concern holding us back. It's hard to know if we are exaggerating that concern or if it is warranted, it would seem hard to know the level of hostility of a school environment prior to moving there.

I think it's likely that the average difference between schools, sometimes even in the same city, is much greater than the difference between the averages for each of the two countries.

I'd guess that the racial and economic demographics of the particular schools in question are much more relevant.

I don't know if it answers your question, because I never studied in the USA, but I want to share my experience regardless.

20y ago I did a high school semester in the UK (Worthing) and it was a very good environment with no bullying whatsoever. 3 factors contributed to this:

1) low stress environment as a whole (beautiful campus, calm teachers and staff, etc)

2) the students had a high degree of liberty in choosing what classes they would attend, so they were presumably interested and not rebellious

3) the student divided themselves into strict groups, and these groups barely interacted with each other.. so after class the 'goths' would hang with the goths, the 'sports-people' with the sports-people, etc. I didn't quite like this at the time because I'm very sociable so it struck me as weird. However, it did work in the sense that there were hardly any social problems among the students.