East Baton Rouge Parish
Inequities in Graduation Rates
Black male students in East Baton Rouge Parish schools graduated at higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. White male students graduated at lower rates than the national average. Results for both groups improved and the gap between them remained only a quarter of 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).
|
Male Students |
Graduation Rate 2005/6 (est.) |
Graduation Rate 2004/5 |
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|
Black Males |
Black |
White |
Gap |
Black |
White |
Black Change |
White Change |
|
|
USA |
4.3mil. |
47% |
75% |
28% |
47% |
74% |
0% |
1% |
|
Louisiana |
147,030 |
38% |
60% |
21% |
48% |
62% |
-9% |
-3% |
|
East Baton Rouge |
19,776 |
57% |
63% |
7% |
54% |
59% |
3% |
4% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to male students in the East Baton Rouge Parish public schools in the 2004/5 school year was unusually small, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Eighty Black (and 10 White) male students were expelled.
White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to East Baton Rouge Parish's Gifted and/or Talented programs at a rate seven times greater than that for Black, non-Hispanic male students and Black, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at a slightly higher rate than 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 1,400 would have been in those programs.
In proportion to their enrollments, nearly five times as many White male students as Black male students in the East Baton Rouge Parish public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and eight times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.