Table 233.45.

Number of discipline incidents resulting in removal of a student from a regular education program for at least an entire school day and rate of incidents per 100,000 students, by discipline reason and state: 2014-15

State	Number of discipline incidents							Rate of discipline incidents per 100,000 students
	Total	Alcohol		Illicit drug		Violent incident1	Weapons possession	Total	Alcohol		Illicit drug		Violent incident1	Weapons possession
1	2	3		4		5	6	7	8		9		10	11
United States2	1,297,163	22,498	4	195,186	4	1,017,143	62,336	2,583	45	4	389	4	2,025	124
Alabama	40,561	527		5,774		32,683	1,577	5,451	71		776		4,392	212
Alaska	3,578	138		717		2,495	228	2,728	105		547		1,902	174
Arizona3	30,217	851		3,915		24,536	915	2,718	77		352		2,207	82
Arkansas	23,099	499		2,116		19,685	799	4,705	102		431		4,010	163
California	251,483	(4)		42,828	4	196,643	12,012	3,984	(4)		678	4	3,115	190
Colorado	65,725	1,082		6,773		57,104	766	7,393	122		762		6,423	86
Connecticut	24,336	365		1,390		21,490	1,091	4,484	67		256		3,960	201
Delaware	613	67		335		50	161	457	50		250		37	120
District of Columbia	5,924	20		282		5,259	363	7,317	25		348		6,496	448
Florida	16,125	1,071		10,252		3,261	1,541	585	39		372		118	56
Georgia	69,897	844		10,917		55,452	2,684	4,007	48		626		3,179	154
Hawaii	2,195	175		678		1,066	276	1,204	96		372		584	151
Idaho	842	78		460		195	109	289	27		158		67	37
Illinois	42,915	969		6,358		32,438	3,150	2,093	47		310		1,582	154
Indiana	41,358	1,215		3,182		35,344	1,617	3,953	116		304		3,378	155
Iowa3	12,533	277		1,945		9,546	765	2,480	55		385		1,889	151
Kansas	12,026	253		2,246		8,839	688	2,418	51		452		1,777	138
Kentucky3	51,619	811		10,997		39,414	397	7,496	118		1,597		5,723	58
Louisiana	47,145	341		4,924		40,631	1,249	6,577	48		687		5,668	174
Maine	1,899	114		735		979	71	1,041	62		403		537	39
Maryland	32,094	416		2,620		27,452	1,606	3,670	48		300		3,139	184
Massachusetts	21,254	503		2,686		16,775	1,290	2,224	53		281		1,755	135
Michigan3	11,476	212		1,292		9,141	831	746	14		84		594	54
Minnesota3	20,647	496		3,572		15,525	1,054	2,409	58		417		1,811	123
Mississippi	17,432	334		757		15,812	529	3,551	68		154		3,221	108
Missouri	21,891	1,040		6,800		12,665	1,386	2,385	113		741		1,380	151
Montana	4,530	141		917		3,253	219	3,134	98		634		2,251	152
Nebraska	9,176	212		1,156		7,389	419	2,935	68		370		2,363	134
Nevada	11,009	420		2,161		7,820	608	2,397	91		471		1,703	132
New Hampshire	4,829	141		797		3,583	308	2,615	76		432		1,940	167
New Jersey	11,679	339		2,162		8,357	821	834	24		154		597	59
New Mexico	11,435	293		2,338		8,249	555	3,360	86		687		2,424	163
New York	18,932	1,171		4,838		7,772	5,151	691	43		176		284	188
North Carolina	69,415	837		11,451		54,373	2,754	4,482	54		739		3,510	178
North Dakota	1,314	52		370		830	62	1,233	49		347		779	58
Ohio	80,159	1,063		8,835		67,255	3,006	4,647	62		512		3,899	174
Oklahoma	14,632	456		2,181		10,824	1,171	2,125	66		317		1,572	170
Oregon	15,004	465		2,899		11,079	561	2,495	77		482		1,842	93
Pennsylvania	36,436	628		2,927		30,536	2,345	2,090	36		168		1,752	135
Rhode Island	12,715	66		701		11,771	177	8,957	46		494		8,292	125
South Carolina	21,051	401		1,392		18,941	317	2,783	53		184		2,504	42
South Dakota3	3,351	102		912		2,107	230	2,519	77		686		1,584	173
Tennessee	32,686	514		2,213		29,691	268	3,283	52		222		2,983	27
Texas	2,405	48		1,364		565	428	46	1		26		11	8
Utah	5,010	146		1,230		3,285	349	788	23		194		517	55
Vermont	—	—		—		—	—	—	—		—		—	—
Virginia	20,772	797		1,692		16,343	1,940	1,622	62		132		1,276	152
Washington3	20,098	944		5,024		11,951	2,179	1,872	88		468		1,113	203
West Virginia	3,438	48		599		2,738	53	1,226	17		214		977	19
Wisconsin	17,552	512		2,468		13,582	990	2,014	59		283		1,559	114
Wyoming	651	4		8		369	270	692	4		9		392	287

—Not available.

1 Includes violent incidents with and without physical injury.

2 U.S. totals exclude Vermont data, which were not reported.

3 This state did not report state-level counts of discipline incidents, but did report school-level counts. The sums of the school-level counts are displayed in place of the unreported state-level counts.

4 California reported alcohol incidents in the illicit drug category.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 030, Data Group 523, extracted August 1, 2016, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2014-15. (This table was prepared August 2016.)