Prince George’s County
Inequities in Graduation Rates
Male Black students in Prince George's County's public schools graduated at higher rates in 2005/6 than the national average, while male White students graduated at lower rates than their Black peers and than the national average for male White students, as they had in 2004/5. There was a slight reverse achievement gap in relation to graduation rates.
The Benchmark for graduation rates of male Black students for school districts enrolling more than 10,000 male Black students is 82% (Fort Bend, Texas).
|
Male Students |
Graduation Rate 2005/6 (est.) |
Graduation Rate 2004/5 |
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|
Black Males |
Black |
White |
Gap |
Black |
White |
Black Change |
White Change |
|
|
USA |
4.3mil. |
47% |
75% |
28% |
47% |
74% |
0% |
1% |
|
Maryland |
166,351 |
55% |
79% |
24% |
56% |
77% |
-1% |
2% |
|
Prince George's County |
51,845 |
59% |
58% |
-2% |
59% |
56% |
0% |
1% |
Discipline, Special Education, and Advanced Placement Inequities
The number of out-of-school suspensions given to male Black students in the Prince George's County public schools was equivalent to twelve percent of Prince George's County's male, Black, non-Hispanic student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to male White students in Prince George's County 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 ten Black (and five White) male students were expelled from the Prince George's County schools.
White male, non-Hispanic students were admitted to Prince George's County's Gifted and/or Talented programs at approximately four times the rate as that for male Black, non-Hispanic students and male Black, non-Hispanic students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications at under twice the rate for White male students. If male Black students had been admitted to the Gifted/Talented program at the same rate as male White students, nearly 8,000 more male Black students would have been in the program.
Approximately six times as many male White students as male Black students in the Prince George's County public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics and seven times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.