• Statewide
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg
• Cumberland County
• Guilford County
• Wake County

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg graduated at lower rates in 2005/6 than the national average for their groups. The racial achievement gap is narrower than the national average.

The Benchmark for graduation rates of Black male students for school districts enrolling more than 10,000 Black male students is 82% (Fort Bend, Texas).

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Evidence of Inequities

NAEP Grade 4 Reading results for Charlotte are above average for the nation as a whole for both White, non-Hispanic and Black male students. Although more than half of the district's Black students read below the Basic level at Grade 4, this performance is above state and national averages.

Percentages Of White and Black Non-Hispanic Male Students At Each Achievement Level (USA and State—2007, Urban—2005), Reading, Grade 4

At Grade 8 half of the district's Black male students read at less than the Basic level and virtually none reach the Advanced level.

Percentages Of White and Black Non-Hispanic Male Students At Each Achievement Level (USA and State—2007, Urban—2005), Reading, Grade 8

In Grade 4 Mathematics, the district's White, non-Hispanic and Black male students both score above national and state averages.

Percentages Of White and Black Non-Hispanic Male Students At Each Achievement Level (USA and State—2007, Urban—2005), Mathematics, Grade 4

By Grade 8, half of Charlotte's Black male students score below the Basic level in Grade 8 Mathematics and virtually none reach the Advanced level.

Percentages Of White and Black Non-Hispanic Male Students At Each Achievement Level (USA and State—2007, Urban—2005), Mathematics, Grade 8

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools was equivalent to twenty-nine percent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg was equivalent to eight percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Twenty Black male (and no male White) students were expelled.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than one-sixth as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools and were placed five times as often in Mental Retardation classifications. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted/Talent programs at the same rate as White male students, at least an additional 4,500 would have had that opportunity.

Proportionate to enrollment, more than seven times as many White male students as Black male students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and four times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.