Hillsborough County Public Schools
Inequities in Graduation Rates
Black male students in Hillsborough County in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, as they had in 2004/5, as did male White students. Because of this, the racial gap is narrower in Hillsborough than the national average. Rates for both groups are improving, but that for Black male students has not yet reached half the Benchmark rate.
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 |
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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% |
|
Florida |
326,757 |
38% |
60% |
22% |
35% |
56% |
3% |
4% |
|
Hillsborough |
23,085 |
40% |
62% |
21% |
39% |
60% |
1% |
1% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Hillsborough County public schools was equivalent to twenty-one percent of Hillsborough's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to the White male students in Hillsborough was equivalent to just over a third of that, not quite eight 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 Hillsborough'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 600 more would be in those programs.
Black male students in the Hillsborough public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses at a rate of about one-fifth that of White, non-Hispanic male students.