2019-20 Student Discipline Data Report by All Offenses

2020

2019-20 Student Discipline Data Report
All Offenses

Offense:

The Student Discipline Data Report reports the disciplines that public school students in Massachusetts received for the offenses committed, as reported by school districts in the School Safety Discipline Report (SSDR). For more detailed information on the SSDR collection, see the documents at the School Safety Discipline Report (SSDR) page on the ESE website.
The COVID 19 pandemic had a profound impact on the 2019-20 school year. Data reported below may have been affected by the pandemic. Please keep this in mind when reviewing the data, and take particular care when comparing data over multiple school years.
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Student Group	Students	Students Disciplined	% In-School Suspension	% Out-of-School Suspension	% Expulsion	% Alternate Setting	% Emergency Removal	% Students with a School-Based Arrest	% Students with a Non-Arrest Law Enforcement Referral
All Students	970,032	28,332	1.2	2	0	0	0.1	0	0
American Indian or Alaska Native	2,140	82	1.7	2.8	0	0	0	0	0
Asian	69,362	515	0.3	0.5	0	0	0	0	0
Black or African American	89,922	5,177	2.4	4.2	0	0	0.3	0	0.1
Hispanic or Latino	214,146	9,616	1.6	3.4	0	0	0.2	0	0
Multi-Race, Not Hispanic or Latino	38,057	1,352	1.5	2.5	0	0	0.2	0	0.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	808	30	1.9	2.5	0	0.1	0.2	0	0
White	555,597	11,560	1	1.3	0	0	0.1	0	0
High Needs	502,164	22,552	1.8	3.2	0	0	0.2	0	0
English Learners	113,333	3,655	1.2	2.4	0	0	0.1	0	0
Economically Disadvantaged	362,677
Students with Disabilities	184,561	10,492	2.3	4.1	0	0	0.3	0	0.1
Female	471,088	8,407	0.7	1.3	0	0	0.1	0	0
Male	498,542	19,917	1.7	2.8	0	0	0.2	0	0