Race, Ethnicity, Gender and School Suspensions

Brief

Black students are 17 times more likely to be disciplined than their White or Hispanic classmates

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Key Observations

Hispanic students had the lowest rate of suspension of all racial/ethnic groups.
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African-American students are more likely than White students to experience repeated school suspensions.
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One fourth (25%) of the African American students had more than 11 discretionary disciplinary actions, compared to about one-fifth of Hispanic students (18%) and less than one-tenth of white students (10%).

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Race, Ethnicity, Gender and School Suspensions

The use of school suspensions has been widely adopted and disproportionately applied to children of poor and disenfranchised communities. Today, Black students are suspended at significantly higher rates than their Black and Hispanic classmates Despite the recent push for alternatives to school suspensions, few, if any, have sought to examine the extent to which certain student suspensions result from various superfluous behavioral actions. There also remains a need to understand the behavioral responses that serve as a catalyst of the educational system’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to school discipline. This report aims to understand how student demographics and behavioral factors relate to school disciplinary practices.

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Race, Ethnicity, Gender and School Suspensions

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