Duval County Public Schools | The Schott 50 State Report

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black male students in Duval County in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, as they had in 2004/5, as did White male students. Because of this, the racial gap is narrower in Duval than the national average. Graduation rates for both Black and White, non-Hispanic male students in the district are improving.

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	4.3 mil.	47%	75%	28%	47%	74%	0%	1%
Florida	326,757	38%	60%	22%	35%	56%	3%	4%
Duval	28,608	38%	55%	17%	31%	50%	7%	6%

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

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

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Duval's Gifted and/or Talented programs at more than four times the rate for Black, non-Hispanic male students, while the ratio was nearly reversed for Mental Retardation classifications. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted and/or Talented programs at the same rate as White male students, at least 750 more would be in those programs.

Black male students in the Duval public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses at a rate of about one-seventh and Science Advanced Placement courses at a rate of about one-fifth that of White, non-Hispanic male students.