• Statewide
• Clark County

Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Clark County in 2005/6 graduated at lower rates than the national average; the gap between them was half the national average. [1] The graduation rate for male Black 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 Clark County public schools was equivalent to twenty percent of Clark County's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Clark County was equivalent to ten percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education. Two hundred twenty Black (and 255 White) male students were expelled from the Clark County schools.

Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented less than a quarter as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Clark County public schools and were placed in Mental Retardation classifications more than twice as often. If Black male students had been admitted to Gifted/Talent programs at the same rate as White male students, at least an additional 450 would have had that opportunity.

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

Footnotes:

1. Clark County enrollment and diploma data has been reported to the National Center for Education Statistics irregularly and is not considered as reliable as data from other districts. The data presented here are best estimates, given the available data.