• Statewide
• Baltimore City
• Baltimore County
• Montgomery County
• Prince George’s County

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Baltimore's schools graduated at much lower rates in 2005/6 than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. The rate for Black male students declined between the two school years, so that fewer than one-third graduated on time. 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 Baltimore City public schools was equivalent to fifteen percent of Baltimore City's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Baltimore City was equivalent to eleven percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Three hundred eighty Black (and 25 White) male students were expelled from the Baltimore City schools.

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Baltimore City's Gifted and/or Talented programs at twice the rate than that for Black, non-Hispanic male students, and Black, non-Hispanic 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 500 would have been in those programs.

Four times as many White male students as Black male students in the Baltimore City public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and nine times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.