school discipline in New Bedford- Are there racial and ethnic disparities?

2018-2019 new bedford’s public school

Enrollment and discipline rates: By race

Totals= 12,845 students enrolled and 1,273 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 11.3% of white, 19.7% of Black, 12.9…

Totals= 12,845 students enrolled and 1,273 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 11.3% of white, 19.7% of Black, 12.9% of Latinx, 17.2% of Multi-Race and 9.1% of American Indian students with a disability in New Bedford 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 New Bedford.

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