Wake County
Inequities in Graduation Rates
Black and White male students in Wake 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% |
|
Wake County |
18,447 |
56% |
84% |
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 Wake County public schools was equivalent to fifteen percent of the county's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Wake County was equivalent to four 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-sixth as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Wake County public schools and were five times as often placed in Mental Retardation classifications. If Black male student had been admitted to Gifted/Talent programs at the same rate as White male students, at least an additional 3,000 would have had that opportunity.
Proportionate to enrollment, more than eight times as many male White students as male Black students in the Wake County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and more than six times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.