New Orleans
Inequities in Graduation Rates
There were no graduations in the Orleans Parish schools in 2004/5 as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina.
|
Male Students |
Graduation Rate 2005/6 (est.) |
Graduation Rate 2004/5 |
||||||
|
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% |
|
Orleans Parish |
2,706 |
0% |
0% |
0% |
49% |
74% |
-49% |
-74% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the New Orleans public schools in the 2004/5 school year was equivalent to thirty-six percent of New Orleans' Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in New Orleans was equivalent to less than one percent, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Seven hundred thirty Black (and no White) male students were expelled from the New Orleans schools.
White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to New Orleans's Gifted and/or Talented programs at a rate nearly ten 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 12,000 would have been in those programs.
In proportion to their enrollment, forty times as many White male students as Black male students in the New Orleans public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and twenty times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.