The Issue

Research has shown that there are disparities in school discipline by race. In St. Louis, Black students particularly are more likely to be suspended than white students. However, the intersection of race and other factors like gender and disability in the administering of school discipline have often not been fully recognized. Below are profiles for each school district in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County that derive from research conducted in a joint effort between Forward Through Ferguson (FTF), the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, and the West County Community Action Network (WE CAN). The full report is titled, Falling Through the Cracks: St. Louis School Discipline at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Disability.

The profiles provide relative risk information to highlight disparities in discipline administered within each district. Relative risks are calculated across gender, race, and disability (IDEA) status as well as at the intersections of these factors. The data were collected by the Office of Civil Rights, and the analyses were conducted by Karishma Furtado of FTF, Professor Alexis Duncan of the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Jen Kocher of WE CAN, and Pranav Nandan of FTF.

St. Louis City

St. Louis County

St. Charles County