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

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Jefferson Parish schools in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. Although results for Black male students improved and those for White male students declined, nearly erasing the gap between them, the graduation rate for Black male students is less than half the Benchmark.

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 Jefferson Parish public schools was equivalent to thirty-five percent of Jefferson Parish's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Jefferson Parish was equivalent to seventeen percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Four hundred thirty Black (and 140 White) male students were expelled from the Jefferson Parish schools.

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Jefferson Parish's Gifted and/or Talented programs at a rate four times greater than that for Black, non-Hispanic male students and Black, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at a 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 750 would have been in those programs.

Seven times as many White male students as Black male students in the Jefferson Parish public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and no Black male students were allowed to participate in Science Advanced Placement courses.