• Statewide
• Cincinnati
• Cleveland
• Columbus

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Cincinnati graduated at lower rates in 2005/6 than the national average. The racial achievement gap is narrower than the national average, in part because of recent improvements in the graduation rate of Black male students, although it remains the case that almost two-thirds of the district’s Black male students do not graduate with their cohort.

The Benchmark for graduation rates of Blackmale 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 Cincinnati public schools was equivalent to fifteen percent of Cincinnati’s Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Cincinnati 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.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than one-fifth as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Cincinnati public schools. The Cincinnati district reported no students classified as mentally retarded. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted/Talent programs at the same rate as White male students, at least an additional 1,300 would have had that opportunity.

Proportionate to enrollment, more than ten times as many White male students as Black male students in the Cincinnati public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and more than eight times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses.