Some MA Districts Post High Out-of-School Suspension Rates

Below is a list of the top 20 Massachusetts school districts with the highest out of school suspension rates for school year 2011-12. Individual charter schools are considered separate districts by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

1. Roxbury Preparatory Charter: 56.1%
2. Grove Hall Preparatory Charter: 50%
3. City on a Hill Charter: 43.6%
4. Up Academy Charter Boston: 38%
5. New Leadership Charter: 36.6%
6. Boston Preparatory Charter: 35.1%
7. Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter: 32.1%
8. Holyoke: 27.3%
9. Edward Brooke Charter: 24.9%
10. Hampden Charter School of Science: 24.7%
11. Codman Academy Charter: 23.5%
12. Spirit of Knowledge Charter: 22.8%
13. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence: 22.5%
14. Edward Brooke Charter 2: 22.4%
15. Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter: 19.4%
16. Community Charter School of Cambridge: 19.4%
17. Fall River: 18.4%
18. Berkshires Arts and Technology Academy: 18.1%
19. Excel Academy Charter Chelsea: 17.9%
20. Franklin County Regional Vocational Technical Institute: 17.6%

Citation: www.doe.mass.edu