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Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White, non-Hispanic male students in Fort Bend graduated at identical rates and Black male students graduated at much higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average for their group. The racial achievement gap was, therefore, closed.

The Benchmark for graduation rates of Black male students for school districts enrolling more than 10,000 Black male students is Fort Bend’s 82%.

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Fort Bend public schools was equivalent to nearly thirty percent of Fort Bend’s Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Fort Bend was equivalent to six percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Thirty Black male students and 20 White male students were expelled.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than one-third as often as White, non-Hispanic male students in the Fort Bend public schools and classified as Mentally Retarded nearly four times as often as their White classmates. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted/Talented programs at a rate comparable to that of White male students, at least an additional 1,000 students would have been able to take advantage of those program resources.

Proportionate to enrollment, more than four times as many White male students as Black male students in the Fort Bend public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and nearly twice as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.