Table 16. Percentage of public school students in kindergarten through 12th grade who had ever repeated a grade, been suspended, or expelled, by sex and race/ethnicity: 2003

Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities

NCES 2007-039
September 2007

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Table 16.

Percentage of public school students in kindergarten through 12th grade who had ever repeated a grade, been suspended, or expelled, by sex and race/ethnicity: 2003

Race/ethnicity	Repeated a grade			Suspended			Expelled
Race/ethnicity	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Total ¹	10.1	12.1	8.0	10.8	14.9	6.6	2.0	2.9	1.1
White	8.2	10.0	6.4	8.8	12.7	4.6	1.4	2.2	0.6 !
Black	17.1	22.6	12.0	19.6	24.2	15.2	5.0	6.7	3.3
Hispanic	10.6	11.3	9.8	10.4	14.4	6.2	1.4 !	1.9 !	0.9 !
Asian/Pacific Islander	4.6 !	4.3 !	4.9 !	6.4	11.1 !	1.0 !	0.5 !	0.8 !	#
American Indian/Alaska Native	9.9 !	12.9 !	5.7 !	10.6	14.2 !	5.7 !	3.4 !	5.8 !	#
# Rounds to zero. ! Interpret data with caution. ¹ Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the 2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (PFI-NHES:2003)