• Statewide
• Atlanta
• Clayton County
• Cobb County
• DeKalb County
• Fulton County
• Gwinnett County
• Richmond County

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black male students in Clayton County in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. Graduation rates for White male students were extraordinarily low (and declining). Therefore, the racial gap is the reverse of that of most other districts. The graduation rate for Black male students in Clayton County is less than half the Benchmark.

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).

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Clayton County public schools was equivalent to nearly nineteen percent of Clayton County's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to the small number of White male students in Clayton County was equivalent to thirteen 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 Clayton County's Gifted and/or Talented programs at over three times the rate for Black, non-Hispanic male students, and, most unusually, Black, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at a slightly lower rate than that for White male students. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted and/or Talented programs at the same rate as White male students, at least 1,500 more would be in those programs.

Black male students in the Clayton County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses at a rate approximately one-third that of the relatively few White, non-Hispanic male students in the system.