Table A-28-1. Number and percentage of students who were suspended and expelled from public elementary and secondary schools, by sex and race/ethnicity: 2002, 2004, and 2006
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Suspensions |
|
Expulsions |
| |
Number |
|
Percent |
|
Number |
|
Percent |
| Characteristic |
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
|
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
|
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
|
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
| Total |
3,083,810 |
3,279,745 |
3,328,750 |
|
6.6 |
6.8 |
6.9 |
|
89,131 |
106,222 |
102,080 |
|
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
| Sex |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Male |
2,165,933 |
2,266,771 |
2,272,290 |
|
9.0 |
9.2 |
9.1 |
|
68,183 |
79,193 |
76,360 |
|
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
| Female |
917,877 |
1,012,974 |
1,056,470 |
|
4.0 |
4.3 |
4.5 |
|
20,948 |
27,029 |
25,720 |
|
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
| |
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|
|
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|
|
|
|
| Race/ethnicity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| White |
1,363,543 |
1,359,416 |
1,302,410 |
|
4.9 |
4.8 |
4.8 |
|
39,483 |
44,501 |
38,030 |
|
0.1 |
0.2 |
0.1 |
| Black |
1,119,969 |
1,222,616 |
1,244,820 |
|
13.9 |
15.0 |
15.0 |
|
28,192 |
36,665 |
38,640 |
|
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
| Hispanic |
500,347 |
594,462 |
670,700 |
|
6.0 |
6.5 |
6.8 |
|
17,697 |
21,346 |
22,140 |
|
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander |
— |
— |
63,220 |
|
— |
— |
2.7 |
|
— |
— |
1,720 |
|
— |
— |
0.1 |
| American Indian/Alaska Native |
— |
— |
47,610 |
|
— |
— |
7.9 |
|
— |
— |
1,550 |
|
— |
— |
0.3 |
| — Not available. |
| NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. For more information on race/ethnicity, see supplemental note 1. Suspension refers to an out-of-school suspension, during which a student is excluded from school for disciplinary reasons for 1 school day or longer; it does not include students who served their suspension in the school. Expulsion is defined as the exclusion of a student from school for disciplinary reasons that results in the student’s removal from school attendance rolls or that meets the criteria for expulsion as defined by the appropriate state or local school authority. For both suspensions and expulsions, students are counted only once, but may appear in both categories. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2002, 2004, and 2006. |
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