school discipline in lowell- are there racial and ethnic disparities?
2017-2018 Lowell’s public school population: by race
Total = 14,904 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 19.9% of white, 16.7% of Black and 37.9% of Latinx students with a disability in Lowell 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 Lowell.
Discipline percentages are derived from unduplicated counts (that is, students who were disciplined multiple times are only counted once).
Student totals by race are approximate, derived from percentages.
Source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education