The following map and table were constructed using data collected during the 2011-2012 school year, covering American PreK-12 students during that time. They show the ratio of black students to white students given out-of-school suspension at least once during the course of the year, by state (except for Hawaii):

State B:W District of Columbia 12x Wisconsin 9x Connecticut 8x Minnesota 7x Nebraska 6x Missouri 6x Iowa 6x Pennsylvania 5x Illinois 5x South Dakota 5x Utah 5x Kansas 5x Tennessee 5x Indiana 4x Texas 4x Michigan 4x New Jersey 4x Ohio 4x Oklahoma 4x Georgia 4x Arkansas 4x Colorado 4x Massachusetts 4x Alabama 4x Nevada 4x North Carolina 3x Wyoming 3x California 3x New Hampshire 3x Oregon 3x Delaware 3x Mississippi 3x Virginia 3x Alaska 3x Kentucky 3x Rhode Island 3x Arizona 3x South Carolina 3x Florida 3x Louisiana 3x New Mexico 3x Washington 3x Maryland 3x Maine 3x West Virginia 2x Montana 2x Idaho 2x New York 2x Vermont 2x North Dakota 2x

Though the results come from a pool covering 49 million students, the DOE report rounds rates to the nearest full percentage. I’ve consequently done the same with displayed ratios. The states are however still ranked in the table by non-rounded ratios.

It’s worth noting that these school suspension disparities are considerably narrower than are the disparities in violent crime among black and white adults.

A few other interesting gleaned insights:

– Black girls are twice as likely to be suspended as white boys.

– Black boys are twenty times as likely to be suspended as Asian girls.

– English language learners are one-third less likely than English speakers to be suspended. For conservatives afraid of mentioning race, this means open borders is one way to make schools orderly again!