In middle schools, black boys are nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys

A new study also shows that black girls are suspended at four times the rate of white girls. Hispanic and Native American Indian middle school students are suspended at higher rates than white students, though not at such disproportionate rates as for black children, while Asian students are less likely to be suspended than whites. Another study of 400 incarcerated high school freshmen in Baltimore found that two-thirds had been suspended at least once in middle school.