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

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Baltimore County's public schools graduated at much higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average, as they had in 2004/5. Although the rate for Black male students declined between the two school years, it remained among the highest in the nation, as the racial gap remained among the narrowest.

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 students in the Baltimore County public schools was equivalent to eleven percent of the county's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in was equivalent to six percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. One hundred sixty five Black (and the same number of White) male students were expelled from the Baltimore County schools.

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Baltimore County's Gifted and/or Talented programs at approximately the same rate as that for Black, non-Hispanic male students and White, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at slightly under half the rate for Black male students. Both these ratios are highly unusual.

More than four times as many White male students as Black male students in the Baltimore County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses.