The issue of school climate and violence in schools has been a major topic of debate within the community of researchers, practitioners and decision-makers for around twenty years. Although national surveys are periodically carried out in middle schools, they are not very contextualized and, as a result, provide little information, leaving territories and populations in the dark. This article attempts to compensate for the lack of data, and to gain a better understanding of the types of victimization faced by middle-school students in the French overseas territories, based on a survey carried out in the French West Indies. These initial data on young people in overseas France reveal discrepancies, sometimes significant, with the figures announced in national surveys. As a result, this survey of middle school victimization provides the diagnosis needed to understand these territories, and is a prerequisite for rethinking school climate and violence in overseas France.