school discipline in boston- Are there racial and ethnic disparities?

2018-2019 Boston’s public school

enrollment and discipline Rates: By race

Totals= 51,433 students enrolled and 2,110 students disciplined

Totals= 51,433 students enrolled and 2,110 students disciplined

The following set of graphs describes what percentage of each enrolled subgroup was disciplined at least once. For example, the graph below reads as 3.1% of white, 9.5% of Black, 6.6% of Latinx, 1% of Asian, 8.4% of Multi-Race and 7.7% of Native Hawaiian students with a disability in Boston were disciplined during the 2018-2019 academic year.

School discipline rates: Students with a disability

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school discipline rates: students without a disability

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school discipline rates: students who are

economically disadvantaged

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School discipline rates: students who are not

economically disadvantaged

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*Please note that this data does not include charter schools in Boston.

Discipline percentages are derived from unduplicated counts (that is, students who were disciplined multiple times are only counted once).

Source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education