School Discipline in Boston

Are there racial and ethnic disparities?

2019-2020 Boston’s public school enrollment and discipline Rates: By race

Totals = 50,480 students enrolled and 1,283 students disciplined

The following set of graphs describe what percentage of each enrolled subgroup was disciplined at least once. For example, the graph below reads as 2.8% of White students, 5.8% of Black students, 4.2% of Latinx students, .8% of Asian students, 4.7% of Multi-Race students, 4.9% of American Indian students and 7.7% of Native Hawaiian students with a disability in Boston were disciplined during the 2019-2020 academic year.

School discipline rates: Students with a disability

school discipline rates: students without a disability

school discipline rates: students who are economically disadvantaged

School discipline rates: students who are not economically disadvantaged

*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