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.
More about the data.

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	9,670	245	0.9	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.1
English Learner	2,612	63	0.9	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.1
Economically disadvantaged	4,435	191	1.5	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.1
Students w/disabilities	2,036	134	2.2	5.3	0.0	0.0	1.2	0.0	0.1
High needs	6,244	232	1.3	2.9	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.1
Female	4,712	77	0.6	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Male	4,954	168	1.2	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.1
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.	9	0
Asian	436	2
Afr. Amer./Black	678	26	1.9	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0
Hispanic/Latino	3,344	119	1.1	2.9	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.1	0.1
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat.	413	11	0.2	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.2
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.	7	0
White	4,783	87	0.8	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0