This is totally predictable. Just like everyone knows about homosexual rape in prison and doesn’t care, everyone knows that typically school officials are going to want to silence the complainer rather than actually manning up and dealing with aggressors in the school system. The squeaky wheel is always considered the problem. I see it acknowledged in literature and TV shows and movies all the time.
That is the story of my school life from about third grade through graduation, except that I never got physically attacked — only continually tormented and sometimes threatened. Even the detail about home being the sanctuary fits. And guess who always got called into the counselor’s office to find out “what the problem” was when I would break down under the strain? Hint: it wasn’t anyone who ever made a hobby out of picking on a short, nerdy girl with out of style clothing and thick glasses.