school discipline in boston- Are there racial and ethnic disparities?
2017-2018 Boston’s Public School population: by race
Total = 54,112 students
*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, 13.3% of Black, 8.5% of Latinx, 2.7% of Asian, 7% of Multi-Race and 1.8% of American Indian students with a disability in Boston were disciplined in the 2017-2018 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