Racial Disparity Grade

Racial disparity is the difference in exclusion based on race. In this report, it is measured by dividing the rate of the racial group with the highest exclusions by the rate of the racial group with the lowest exclusions. To see the specifics of how this grade was constructed, click on this link.

The average Racial Disparity grade was 37.9; Half the schools/districts had a grade below 40. The lowest Racial Disparity Grade was 0, and the highest was 100.

Community (Charter) Schools had a higher mean grade (40.1) than Public District/School (37). That difference was statistically significant (p=.005). That is, there was less than a .5% probability that the difference occurred by chance alone.

Type 3 Small Town districts earned the lowest mean grade (34.6) while Type 6 Suburban districts earned the highest mean grade (41.4). However, the difference in racial disparity grade was not statistically significant. (p=.215).