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Table 55 shows the percentage of high school students in Indian River and Florida in 2004 - 2014, who reported alcohol use. Similar to middle school students, the rate of high school students in Indian River and Florida who reported using alcohol in the past 30 days decreased from 2004 to 2014. In 2014, the rate in Florida (28.4%) was slightly lower than Indian River (31.8%). Indian River had a decrease of 9.2 percentage points while Florida had a decrease of 15.4 percentage points the time period shown. Table 55: High School Students Who Report Having Used Alcohol in the Past 30 days, 2004-2014 2224 22 221 22'12 22'l2 214 Florida 42.0% 41.8% 39.5% 38.0% 33.9% 28.4% Indian River 47.2% 46.4% 48.3% 41.3% 35.7% 31.8% Source: FloridaCHARTS, Youth Risk Substance Abuse Survey, 2014 Compiled by: Health Council of Southeast Florida, 2014 Table 56 shows the percentage of high school students in Indian River and Florida who reported binge drinking in Indian River County and Florida from 2004 through 2014. This percentage represents the number of students reporting having 5 or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks. Both the county and state rates decreased in the time period shown, however, Indian River had a greater percentage point decrease, 10.2, versus 8.3 in Florida. However, in 2014 the rate in Indian River (14.9%) was still higher than in Florida (13.7%). Table 56: High School Students Reporting Binge Drinking, 2004-2014 Florida Indian River 22.0% 25.1% 23.0% 27.5% 21.5% 28.7% 19.6% 20.6% 16.4% 16.9% 13.7% 14.9% Source: FloridaCHARTS, Youth Risk Substance Abuse Survey, 2014 Compiled by: Health Council of Southeast Florida, 2015 47IPage - Indian River County Children's Assessment 2014 X28•`{