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

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black male students in Cumberland County graduated at higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average, while White male students graduated at lower rates for their group. The racial achievement gap is, therefore, considerably 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).

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Cumberland County public schools was equivalent to sixteen percent of Cumberland County's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Cumberland County was equivalent to seven percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than one-third as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Cumberland County public schools and were three times as often placed 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 600 would have had that opportunity.

Proportionate to enrollment, more than three times as many White male students as Black male students in the Cumberland County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and nearly four times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.