• Statewide
• Jackson City

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black male students in Jackson City's public schools in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average, while the graduation rate for the very few White male students, which is highly unstable, was considerably lower than the national average. The racial achievement gap is therefore also considerably lower than the national average. The graduation rate for Black male students is less half the Benchmark.

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 Jackson City public schools was equivalent to fourteen percent of Jackson City's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Jackson City was equivalent to less than one percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Sixty Black (and no White) male students were expelled from the Jackson City schools.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than half as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Jackson City public schools and no White male students were placed in Mental Retardation classifications. If Black students had been admitted to Gifted/Talent programs at the same rate as White male students, at least an additional 2,000 would have had that opportunity.

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