{
  "alt": "Scatter plot of the district suspension rate against the district deprivation rank. Dots rise from the least deprived districts on the left to the most deprived on the right, and a line of decile means climbs steeply at first and then flattens, with intervals in the top three tenths that overlap.",
  "caption": "Dots drift up from left to right, and the decile means climb steeply over the first four tenths, more slowly to decile {fact:oss_peak_decile}, and the top three tenths cannot be told apart. Each dot is a school district, with dot area proportional to enrollment, and each marker is the enrollment-weighted mean of a tenth of districts with a 95% interval from a bootstrap over counties. The enrollment-weighted correlation across all districts is {fact:oss_r}.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "suspension_dose",
  "notes": [
    "Every district with at least {fact:oss_floor} students enrolled and a reported suspension count is plotted, out of {fact:oss_n} districts; {fact:cloud_above} of them have a rate above the top of the vertical axis and are not drawn, but they are in every estimate.",
    "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. Deciles hold equal numbers of districts.",
    "Districts report these counts themselves and a single district's rate carries no sampling interval; the decile means and the correlation resample counties. Resampling states instead gives a wider interval for the correlation: {fact:oss_r_state}.",
    "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, and Area Deprivation Index, 2023; enrollment-weighted district rates, full counts reported by districts",
  "spec": {
    "overlays": [
      {
        "hi": "hi",
        "kind": "line",
        "label": "Decile means with 95% intervals",
        "lo": "lo",
        "n": "n",
        "rows": [
          {
            "hi": 4.12,
            "lo": 2.35,
            "n": 1025,
            "x": 14.32,
            "y": 3.12
          },
          {
            "hi": 9.81,
            "lo": 7.07,
            "n": 1026,
            "x": 30.59,
            "y": 8.4
          },
          {
            "hi": 15.9,
            "lo": 11.94,
            "n": 1026,
            "x": 43.09,
            "y": 13.77
          },
          {
            "hi": 23.11,
            "lo": 17.34,
            "n": 1025,
            "x": 52.86,
            "y": 20.09
          },
          {
            "hi": 22.38,
            "lo": 17.75,
            "n": 1026,
            "x": 60.95,
            "y": 19.95
          },
          {
            "hi": 25.83,
            "lo": 20.28,
            "n": 1026,
            "x": 67.84,
            "y": 22.98
          },
          {
            "hi": 29.41,
            "lo": 21.35,
            "n": 1025,
            "x": 74.24,
            "y": 24.96
          },
          {
            "hi": 29.67,
            "lo": 24.14,
            "n": 1026,
            "x": 79.42,
            "y": 26.89
          },
          {
            "hi": 27.23,
            "lo": 21.61,
            "n": 1030,
            "x": 85.05,
            "y": 24.44
          },
          {
            "hi": 27.29,
            "lo": 20.24,
            "n": 1022,
            "x": 91.71,
            "y": 23.64
          }
        ],
        "x": "x",
        "y": "y"
      }
    ],
    "payload": "suspension_dose.json",
    "size": "enrollment",
    "sizeFormat": {
      "digits": 0,
      "thousands": true
    },
    "sizeLabel": "Students enrolled",
    "x": "adi",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      100
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 0
    },
    "xLabel": "District deprivation rank (mean ADI national rank of its tracts; 1 = least deprived, 100 = most deprived)",
    "y": "rate",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      150
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 0
    },
    "yLabel": "Students suspended per 1,000 enrolled"
  },
  "subtitle": "Students suspended out of school at least once per 1,000 students enrolled, by the district's deprivation rank (mean Area Deprivation Index national rank of its tracts), one dot per district, 2020-21 school year",
  "title": "Out-of-school suspensions were more common in more deprived districts, at {fact:oss_d1} per thousand students in the least deprived tenth of districts against {fact:oss_d10} in the most deprived",
  "type": "scatter"
}