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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new DC STAR report cards have discipline data for DCI.

The suspension rate is 17%; the DC average is 7% (13% of students have had in school suspension and 9% out of school suspension.

21% of Black, 20% of Latino, 5% of White and 3% of Asian students were suspended.

The suspension rates for at-risk students is 28%, ELLs 28% and students with disabilities is 35% (of course a student can be in more than one of these categories).

Hopefully this is the link to the subpage of the report card https://dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/181-0248/metric/suspensions?lang=en

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There are a few data issues here. The 7% is for all of DC, not comparable grades; it's extremely unusual to suspend elementary school kids, which are almost half of all DC students. A grade-by-grade comparison would tell much more. In the previous year (OSSE discontinued this particular report), DCI had a far lower suspension rate than the city as a whole for comparable grades: https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2017_Equity_Report_Public%20Charter%20School_District%20of%20Columbia%20International%20School.pdf

Second, DCI suspends more students in-school (which means they're still at school, getting some instruction etc.) than out-of-school - 13% vs. 9%. It looks like they're almost alone in actually reporting in-school suspensions. The overall DC in-school suspension rate is actually listed as 0% (https://dcschoolreportcard.org/state/99999-0000/metric/suspensions?lang=en) - which is ridiculous; most middle and high schools in DC use in-school suspension, they just aren't reporting it.

In other words, DCI comes off as much more comparatively suspension-happy than it is.[/quote]

Also, you can't add the suspension rate across both categories, since In-school suspension comes before out-of-school suspension (i.e., the students who receive out of school suspension are a subset of those who receive in-school).  You would be double counting suspended students this way.[/quote]

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