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ii When Asian students are seen as the model minority, pressures to conform and meet high expectations combined with discrimination and harassment may serve to negatively influence how Asians view their school climate. The current study seeks to examine views of the school climate by Asians as a function of their majority/minority status in their schools, as well as variability within Asian subgroups. By examining the students’ perceptions of overall school climate, student respect, student friendship and belonging, students ’ shaping of their environment, and student support and care by staff, this study seeks to empirically examine the notions that have been demonstrated largely theoretically and anecdotally. In addition, this study seeks to examine the moderating effects of ethnic composition of the school on Asian students ’ perception of school climate. Data were collected from completion of the Developing Safe and Civil Schools School Community Survey (Elias, 2009), a self-report questionnaire. Participants consist of 10,401 sixth to twelfth grade students from 25 New Jersey public schools who wer