• Statewide
• Dallas
• Fort Bend
• Fort Worth
• Houston

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White, non-Hispanic male students in Fort Worth graduated at rates in 2005/6 lower than the national average for their groups. The racial achievement gap was narrower than the national average.

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 Fort Worth public schools was equivalent to twenty-five percent of Fort Worth’s Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Fort Worth 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. Sixty Black male students and 10 White male students were expelled.

MBlack, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than one-quarter as often as White, non-Hispanic male students in the Fort Worth public schools and classified as Mentally Retarded nearly seven 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 1,800 students would have been able to take advantage of those program resources.

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