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	2,644	74	0.9	2.2	0	0	0.4	0	0
American Indian or Alaska Native	5
Asian	47	0
Black or African American	55	8	5.5	12.7	0	0	1.8	0	0
Hispanic or Latino	393	18	1	3.3	0	0	1	0	0
Multi-Race, Not Hispanic or Latino	72	2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	1
White	2,071	45	0.8	1.7	0	0	0.2	0	0
High Needs	1,199	48	1.3	3.2	0	0	0.8	0	0
English Learners	335	8	0.9	1.8	0	0	0.3	0	0
Economically Disadvantaged	780
Students with Disabilities	456	26	1.8	4.2	0	0	1.5	0	0
Female	1,349	16	0.3	0.8	0	0	0.4	0	0
Male	1,295	58	1.5	3.6	0	0	0.4	0	0