• Statewide
• Caddo Parish
• East Baton Rouge Parish
• Jefferson Parish
• New Orleans

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Caddo Parish schools in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. Results for Black male students declined and those for White male students slightly improved.

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 Caddo Parish public schools was equivalent to twenty-four percent of Caddo Parish's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Caddo Parish was equivalent to ten percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education. Two hundred Black (and 45 White) male students were expelled from the Caddo schools.

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Caddo Parish's Gifted and/or Talented programs at a rate ten times greater than that for Black, non-Hispanic male students and Black, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at three times the rate of that for White male students. If Black male 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.

Nearly twenty times as many White male students as Black male students in the Caddo Parish public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and ten times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses in proportion to their enrollments.