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

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Montgomery 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 (third highest in the nation) improved between the two school years, the racial gap remained large, if lower 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).

Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities

The number of out-of-school suspensions given to Black male students in the Montgomery County public schools was equivalent to nine percent of Montgomery County's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Montgomery County was equivalent to three percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Ten Black (and the same number of White) male students were expelled from the Montgomery County schools.

White, non-Hispanic male students were admitted to Montgomery County's Gifted and/or Talented programs at approximately twice the rate as that for Black, non-Hispanic male students and Black, non-Hispanic male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at approximately three times the rate for White male students. If Black male students had been admitted to the Gifted/Talented program at the same rate as White male students, nearly 4,000 more Black male students would have been in the program.

Proportionate to enrollments, approximately four times as many White male students as Black male students in the Montgomery County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and Science Advanced Placement courses.