{
  "alt": "Dumbbell chart with one row for each of the districts with the most Black students, joining the white suspension rate to the Black suspension rate in the same district. The Black dot is to the right of the white dot in most rows, with the widest gaps at the top and a few rows where it is to the left.",
  "caption": "Most dots for Black students sit to the right of the dots for white students in the same row, and the rows run from the widest Black-minus-white gap to the narrowest. The districts are the ones with the most Black students among those with at least {fact:bw_floor} Black and as many white students, chosen by enrollment and not by their rates.",
  "data": [
    {
      "black": 20.2,
      "district": "Gwinnett County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 57324,
      "enrolled_white": 34490,
      "white": 12.9
    },
    {
      "black": 2.1,
      "district": "DeKalb County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 55373,
      "enrolled_white": 10603,
      "white": 1.3
    },
    {
      "black": 2,
      "district": "Detroit Public Schools Community District, MI",
      "enrolled_black": 38939,
      "enrolled_white": 1177,
      "white": 8.5
    },
    {
      "black": 15.5,
      "district": "Fulton County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 38322,
      "enrolled_white": 23278,
      "white": 7.4
    },
    {
      "black": 1.7,
      "district": "Atlanta Public Schools, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 36901,
      "enrolled_white": 8293,
      "white": 0.6
    },
    {
      "black": 0.5,
      "district": "Clayton County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 36290,
      "enrolled_white": 906,
      "white": 1.1
    },
    {
      "black": 20.3,
      "district": "Cobb County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 32741,
      "enrolled_white": 37526,
      "white": 10.2
    },
    {
      "black": 6,
      "district": "Guilford County Schools, NC",
      "enrolled_black": 29379,
      "enrolled_white": 20193,
      "white": 2.3
    },
    {
      "black": 50.5,
      "district": "East Baton Rouge Parish, LA",
      "enrolled_black": 28779,
      "enrolled_white": 4625,
      "white": 20.3
    },
    {
      "black": 0,
      "district": "District of Columbia Public Schools, DC",
      "enrolled_black": 28480,
      "enrolled_white": 8188,
      "white": 0.1
    },
    {
      "black": 154.9,
      "district": "Mobile County, AL",
      "enrolled_black": 26493,
      "enrolled_white": 19746,
      "white": 62.5
    },
    {
      "black": 8.3,
      "district": "Columbus City School District, OH",
      "enrolled_black": 24713,
      "enrolled_white": 10015,
      "white": 4
    },
    {
      "black": 12.5,
      "district": "Henry County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 24436,
      "enrolled_white": 9752,
      "white": 17.4
    },
    {
      "black": 45.4,
      "district": "Caddo Parish, LA",
      "enrolled_black": 22967,
      "enrolled_white": 10152,
      "white": 16.4
    },
    {
      "black": 3.9,
      "district": "Cumberland County Schools, NC",
      "enrolled_black": 22600,
      "enrolled_white": 13156,
      "white": 1.7
    },
    {
      "black": 10.4,
      "district": "Montgomery County, AL",
      "enrolled_black": 22309,
      "enrolled_white": 2261,
      "white": 2.7
    },
    {
      "black": 13.6,
      "district": "Cincinnati Public Schools, OH",
      "enrolled_black": 22032,
      "enrolled_white": 7849,
      "white": 3.7
    },
    {
      "black": 27.2,
      "district": "Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, TX",
      "enrolled_black": 22025,
      "enrolled_white": 25629,
      "white": 6.8
    },
    {
      "black": 43.3,
      "district": "Richmond County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 21883,
      "enrolled_white": 4380,
      "white": 30.1
    },
    {
      "black": 2.5,
      "district": "Cleveland Municipal, OH",
      "enrolled_black": 21492,
      "enrolled_white": 5006,
      "white": 1.4
    },
    {
      "black": 13.7,
      "district": "Fort Bend ISD, TX",
      "enrolled_black": 21133,
      "enrolled_white": 11341,
      "white": 4.4
    },
    {
      "black": 3.6,
      "district": "Savannah-Chatham County, GA",
      "enrolled_black": 21072,
      "enrolled_white": 8018,
      "white": 1.6
    },
    {
      "black": 2.6,
      "district": "Jackson Public School District, MS",
      "enrolled_black": 19542,
      "enrolled_white": 260,
      "white": 0
    },
    {
      "black": 16.3,
      "district": "Birmingham City, AL",
      "enrolled_black": 19186,
      "enrolled_white": 403,
      "white": 5
    }
  ],
  "id": "suspension_black_white",
  "notes": [
    "The rates are full counts reported by the districts, so they carry no sampling interval; a rate in a district with few students of one group rests on few suspensions. The suspension rate is the number of students who received at least one out-of-school suspension, whether once or more than once, divided by the students enrolled.",
    "Districts are named as the Collection lists them. The Civil Rights Data Collection for the 2020-2021 school year was disrupted by remote and hybrid teaching, and districts report their own counts, so the levels describe an unusual year. Suppressed school cells add nothing to a district's sum."
  ],
  "source": "Civil Rights Data Collection, 2020-2021 school year; full counts reported by districts, crude rates",
  "spec": {
    "deltaLabel": "Black minus white (per 1,000)",
    "label1": "White students",
    "label2": "Black students",
    "n1": "enrolled_white",
    "n2": "enrolled_black",
    "sort": "change-desc",
    "x1": "white",
    "x2": "black",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      170
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Students suspended per 1,000 enrolled",
    "y": "district"
  },
  "subtitle": "Students suspended out of school at least once per 1,000 enrolled, white and Black students in the same district, the districts with the most Black students among those compared, 2020-21 school year",
  "title": "The Black suspension rate was higher than the white rate in {fact:n_big_blackhi} of the {fact:n_dumbbell} districts with the most Black students",
  "type": "dumbbell",
  "width": "wide"
}