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Inequities in Graduation Rates

Black and White male students in Columbus graduated at lower rates in 2005/6 than the national average. The racial achievement gap reverses that typical of the nation's schools. Almost two-thirds of the district's White male students do not graduate with their cohort.

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 Columbus public schools was equivalent to an extraordinary thirty-one percent of Columbus's Black, non-Hispanic male student population and the percentage of out-of-school suspensions given to White male students in Columbus was equivalent to twenty-two percent, in the 2004/5 school year, as reported to the Office of Civil Rights of the U. S. Department of Education.

Despite their higher graduation rate, Black, non-Hispanic male students were classified as Gifted/Talented little more than half as often as White non-Hispanic male students in the Columbus public schools and classified as Mentally Retarded at a slightly higher rate than their White classmates.

Proportionate to enrollment, approximately three times as many White male students as Black male students in the Columbus public schools in 2004/5 were allowed to participate in Mathematics Advanced Placement courses and half again as many in Science Advanced Placement courses. This is a rather low rate of disproportionality, in national terms.