Birmingham City Public Schools
Inequities in Graduation Rates
There are fewer than 200 White, non-Hispanic male students in the Birmingham City public schools. Black male students in the district graduate at rates below the state and national average: two-thirds of those enrolled in Grade 9 do not graduate with their class four years later.
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 |
|
Graduation |
|
|
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|
|
Black Males |
Black |
White |
Gap |
Black |
White |
Black Change |
White Change |
|
USA |
4.3 mil. |
47% |
75% |
28% |
47% |
74% |
0% |
1% |
|
Alabama |
135,497 |
43% |
63% |
20% |
43% |
65% |
1% |
-2% |
|
Birmingham |
14,956 |
33% |
21% |
-12% |
34% |
6% |
- |
15% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in Birmingham was equivalent to twenty-one percent of Birmingham’s Black, non-Hispanic, male student population. The number of out-of-school suspensions given to the small number of White male students in Birmingham was equivalent to ten percent of the district’s White, non-Hispanic, male enrollment in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education.
Less than half the proportion of Birmingham’s Black male students were admitted to district Gifted and/or Talented programs as that for White male students, while over twice as many in proportion to enrollment were classified as Mentally Retarded. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted and/or Talented programs at the same rate as White male students, at least 500 more would be in those programs.
There were nearly 16,000 Black male students in the Birmingham City public schools in 2004/5, of whom about one-tenth of one percent were in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses. None of the approximately 200 White male students were in such courses.