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

2018-2019 springfield’s public school

Enrollment and discipline rates: By race

Totals= 25,297 students enrolled and 2,037 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 8.8% of white, 12.5% of Black, 10.9%…

Totals= 25,297 students enrolled and 2,037 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 8.8% of white, 12.5% of Black, 10.9% of Latinx, 1.5% of Asian and 6.6% of Multi-Race students with a disability in Springfield 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 Springfield.

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