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	6,224	187	2.5	0.9	0	0	0.1	0	0
American Indian or Alaska Native	3
Asian	127	4
Black or African American	239	12	4.6	2.1	0	0	0	0	0
Hispanic or Latino	1,093	57	4.3	1.5	0	0	0.4	0	0
Multi-Race, Not Hispanic or Latino	121	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	2
White	4,639	109	2	0.7	0	0	0	0	0
High Needs	3,345	143	3.7	1.1	0	0	0.2	0	0
English Learners	641	19	3	0.3	0	0	0.2	0	0
Economically Disadvantaged	2,404
Students with Disabilities	1,296	70	4.5	1.7	0	0	0.4	0	0
Female	3,055	49	1.4	0.3	0	0	0	0	0
Male	3,167	137	3.5	1.5	0	0	0.2	0	0