This article is an overview of the school violence problem in general with an investigation of individual school and student characteristics that may correlate to fluctuations in school violence incident rates. The author presents a resource based view of school violence prediction specifically, school violence is found to be more prevalent at schools where family and community resources are low and also more prevalent among individual students with lower than average self-esteem and school involvement. Data was collected from 2,000 seventh graders who attended 26 schools located in larger cities throughout Sweden. The author noted a strong correlation between low self-esteem and victim status. However, the role of academic climate or social cohesion at individual schools was less clearly correlative. Based upon the research results the author presents a school violence response plan including community based interaction and involvement. 4 tables, 31 references