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Student Exclusions 1999 - 2000

Exclusions by District

As shown in Table 11, over half of the 371 school districts reported no student exclusions for the 1999-00 school year. A total of 137 districts, or 37 percent, excluded students from school. One-quarter of the school districts reported between one and three exclusions. Nine percent of the school districts reported between four and nine student exclusions, and four percent, or 16 districts, reported ten or more student exclusions. This is a decrease from the prior year when 23 districts reported ten or more student exclusions.

Table 11. Distribution of School Districts
by Number of Exclusions

1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 Number of Exclusions # % # % # % 0 199 56 208 57 223 63 1-3 91 26 90 25 88 24 4-9 43 12 42 12 33 9 10-19 13 4 14 4 7 2 20-49 3 1 4 1 4 1 50-99 2 1 2 1 1 0 100 or more 3 1 3 1 4 1

Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.

The number of districts having ten or more student exclusions as shown in Table 12 has decreased from the previous year. The first seven districts are the same as last year, and each one except for Holyoke reported an increase in the number of students excluded during the 1999-00 school year. More than two-thirds of the districts in 1999-00 provided alternative education to 50 percent or more of their students.

Table 12. Districts with Ten or More Student Exclusions

1998-99 District # Per 1000 students % Alt. Ed. Springfield 234 9 90 Boston 147 2 24 Worcester 118 5 100 Lawrence 82 7 96 Holyoke 73 10 36 Lowell 24 1 79 Quincy 24 3 67 Framingham 21 3 86 Revere 21 3 76 Fitchburg 18 3 72 Gr. Lawrence RVT 18 13 28 Dennis-Yarmouth 15 3 53 Chicopee 14 2 7 Assabet Valley 14 17 43 Cambridge 13 2 100 Wareham 13 4 85 Gloucester 12 3 42 Methuen 12 2 25 New Bedford 12 1 92 Peabody 12 2 83 Tewksbury 11 3 55 Southern Berkshire 11 10 82 Northeast Metro Voc. 11 10 64

1999-00 District # Per 1000 students % Alt. Ed. Springfield 358 14 85 Boston 180 3 55 Worcester 137 5 99 Lawrence 118 9 97 Holyoke 58 8 36 Lowell 40 2 83 Quincy 37 4 46 Chicopee 29 4 17 Revere 25 4 68 Assabet Valley 18 21 44 Peabody 17 3 65 New Bedford 14 1 93 Greenfield 13 5 100 Plymouth 13 1 31 Cambridge 10 1 100 Dennis-Yarmouth 10 2 50

Rates of student exclusions per 1000 students enrolled (as of October 1) are rounded to nearest whole numbers.

Although some districts may have excluded more than ten students from school, due to their large total enrollment, they had fewer than four exclusions per 1000 students enrolled in the district. Other districts had fewer than ten student exclusions, but had four or more exclusions per 1000 students because they had smaller total enrollments. As illustrated in Table 13, there were 17 districts reporting four or more student exclusions per 1000 students in 1999-00 compared to 23 districts in 1998-99.

Table 13. Districts with Four or More
Student Exclusions per 1000 Students

1998-99 District # Per 1000 students % Alt. Ed. Assabet Valley 14 17 43 No. Berkshire Voc. 6 13 17 Acad. of Pac. Rim Cht. 2 13 50 Gr. Lawrence RVT 18 13 28 Southern Berkshire 11 10 82 Holyoke 73 10 36 Northeast Metro Voc. 11 10 64 Springfield 234 9 90 Lowell Middlesex Cht. 1 9 0 So. Worcester Cnty VT 8 8 88 Seven Hills Charter 5 8 100 South Shore RVT 4 7 100 Lawrence 82 7 96 Rising Tide Charter 1 6 0 Cape Cod Light. Cht. 1 6 100 Old Colony RVT 3 6 100 Ware 7 5 43 Gr. New Bedford 9 5 22 Worcester 118 5 100 North Shore Reg. Voc. 2 5 50 North Brookfield 3 4 67 Wareham 13 4 85 Winchendon 7 4 0

1999-00 District # Per 1000 students % Alt. Ed. Assabet Valley 18 21 44 Springfield 358 14 85 Lawrence 118 9 97 Holyoke 58 8 36 Gr. Lawrence RVT 9 7 56 So. Shore Charter Sch. 2 6 50 Greenfield 13 5 100 Worcester 137 5 99 Acad. of Pac. Rim Cht. 1 5 0 City On A Hill Cht. 1 5 0 Southern Berkshire 6 5 100 Chicopee 29 4 17 Quincy 37 4 46 Revere 25 4 68 Concord-Carlisle 4 4 100 So. Worcester Cty. VT 4 4 100 Whittier Voc. 5 4 0

Rates of student exclusions per 1000 students enrolled (as of October 1) are rounded to nearest whole numbers.

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