• Statewide
• Jefferson County

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Male Black students in the Jefferson County Public Schools graduated at higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average, while male White students graduated at rates lower than the national average, as they had in 2004/5.   As a consequence, the racial gap is much narrower in Jefferson County than the national average.

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

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

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

White male, non-Hispanic students were admitted to Jefferson County's Gifted and/or Talented programs at a rate four times greater than that for   male Black, non-Hispanic students and   male Black, non-Hispanic students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at twice the rate of that for White male students. If male Black students had been placed in Gifted/Talented programs at the same rate as their White peers, at least an additional 1,000 would have been in those programs.

Nine times as many male White students as male Black students in the Jefferson County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses.