Map: Pasadena Unified Suspension Rates, by School

Continuing our series of graphics of state data showing suspensions and other disicpline at Pasadena Unified School District schools, today we look at the percent of the student body at each PUSD school that was suspended at least once in 2011-12.

Yesterday: Why Pasadena Unified Students Get Suspended

Tuesday: Black Students Suspended More Often in 2011-12

The data comes from a report issued in April by the California Department of Education, which looks at suspensions, expulsion and truancy at schools across the state.

Overall, Pasadena Unified students were suspended at a rate above state and county average, with 8.3 percent of students suspended in 2011-12, compared to 4.4 percent county-wide and 5.7 percent state-wide.

At PUSD there were 1,776 students suspended at least once in 2011-12 and 3,929 total instances of suspension, according to state figures. Those include in-school suspensions where the student is in class, and out-of-school ones, though 92.7 of the PUSD suspensions were out of school, according to figures in the report.

More on PUSD can be found on the district report at the state's website.

Overall, the top suspension rate in PUSD was at the Rose City Continutation School, where 31 percent of students were suspended at least once in 2011-12.  
On the other side of the spectrum schools in or near Sierra Madre had some of the lowest suspension rates in the district: Sierra Made and Don Benito elementary schools both had a rate of 1.7 percent and Field Elementary had a 0.2 percent rate.

Seventeen of 31 schools on the map had a suspension rate at least 10 percent lower than state average; two were within 10 percent, and 12 were at least 10 percent higher, including all the district's high schools.

How to Use the Map

The markers above represent the suspension rates for each PUSD school - green markers show schools that had a suspension rate at least 10 percent lower than state average, yellow markers those with a suspension rate within 10 percent of state average, red markers those with a suspension rate at least 10 percent above state average.

By clicking on the map markers above you can see the suspension rate, truancy rate and expulsion rate at each school.  The raw figures refer to the number of students suspended at each school rather than the overall number of suspensions (some students were suspended more than once).