Philadelphia
Inequities in Graduation Rates
Black and White male students in Philadelphia graduated at lower rates in 2005/6 than the national average.[1] The racial achievement gap is narrower than 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 |
||||||
|
Black |
Black |
White |
Gap |
Black |
White |
Black Change |
White Change |
|
|
USA |
4.3mil. |
47% |
75% |
28% |
47% |
74% |
0% |
1% |
|
Pennsylvania |
150,161 |
58% |
84% |
26% |
56% |
81% |
2% |
4% |
|
Philadelphia |
60,838 |
46% |
58% |
11% |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Philadelphia public schools was equivalent to twenty-four percent of Philadelphia’s Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Philadelphia 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. An extraordinary 885 Black male students and 90 White male students were expelled.
Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than a third as often as White, non-Hispanic male students in the Philadelphia public schools and classified as Mentally Retarded at a higher rate than their White classmates.
Proportionate to enrollment, approximately two and a half times as many White students as Black male students in the Philadelphia public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and six times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.