Statistics

NYC DOE Suspensions

BIPOC students are suspended at rates significantly higher than their white peers. While Black students make up 26% of the overall student population in NYC public schools, they comprised 45.5% of school suspensions in 2018-2019 school year. This leads to interruptions in their academics which can impact their emotional and physical health. Black students are also more likely to receive harsher suspensions for the same infractions. Even with Mayor De Blasio's effort to reduce student suspension city-wide, the inequity in school suspension across race remains, with Black students making up 42.4% of total suspensions in 2020. (Statistics according to NYCDOE)

Suspension Centers

There are 34 suspension centers across the city. A student must serve their suspension in one of these 'alternate learning centers' away from their home school if they received a 'superintendent suspension'.

These centers are not conducive to learning. One student said “You get locked into this room and have to sit in this confined spot all day. It’s basically jail.”

Almost 90 percent of out-of-school suspensions were issued to black or Hispanic students last school year, a group that comprises 67 percent of the city’s students. Where these students come from, however, is harder to track as much of the DOE's data on school suspension has been redacted.

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