Guilford County
Inequities in Graduation Rates
lack and White male students in Guilford County graduated at higher rates in 2005/6 than the national averages 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).
|
Male Students |
Graduation Rate 2005/6 (est.) |
Graduation Rate 2004/5 |
||||||
|
Black Males |
Black |
White |
Gap |
Black |
White |
Black Change |
White Change |
|
|
USA |
4.3mil. |
47% |
75% |
28% |
47% |
74% |
0% |
1% |
|
North Carolina |
225,381 |
49% |
69% |
19% |
49% |
67% |
0% |
1% |
|
Guilford County |
15,687 |
56% |
76% |
21% |
57% |
74% |
-1% |
2% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Guilford public schools was equivalent to sixteen percent of Guilford's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Guilford was equivalent to over nine percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Eighty-five Black male (and twenty White male) students were expelled.
Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented one-fifth as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Guilford public schools and were nearly twice 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 2,800 would have had that opportunity.
Proportionate to enrollment, more than three times as many White male students as Black male students in the Guilford public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and more than twice as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.