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Map: South Pasadena Students Suspended at Rates Below County, State Average

You can look up how often students were suspended across the county at each district and each school using the below map and database.

A state effort to reduce the number of suspensions at schools across California has yielded a report that shows how often students at each school have been suspended - South Pasadena Unified, as might be expected, has one of the lower suspension rates in the county.

There were 105 students suspended in the district in 2011-12, amounting to a rate of 2.2 percent of all students at the school getting suspended at least once that year.  

By comparison, L.A. County students were suspended at a rate of 4.4 percent of all students while statewide the rate was 5.7 percent.

Lower level schools generally have fewer suspensions, which held true at South Pasadena Unified, where 62 of the 105 suspensions occurred at South Pasadena High and 28 occurred at South Pasadena Middle School.

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.  More data on the subject can be found at the state's website under the 'Expulsion, Suspension and Truancy' category.

As part of the report California's Department of Education says it is undertaking steps to understand why districts are suspending so many students and to lower suspension rates across the state.

How to Use the Above Map and Form

The above map shows the suspension rate for each unified school district in the county.  Districts that service just one level of school are not pictured on the map.  Clicking on each district gives the suspension rate, expulsion rate, truancy rates and more.

The map's is color-coded so that the bright red districts are those above county average.  The maroon shade is between the 4.4 percent county average and the 5.7 percent state average.  The pink shade is below county average and the lightest shade shows districts with a suspension rate of 50 percent below the county average.

The database below the map allows you to look up more data for each school district or for any individual school in the county.  Be sure to use just one of the two categories to search; use either 'district' or 'school,' not both.

On the list of schools the database shows, schools in green have suspension rates at least 10 percent below the state average, while yellow schools are within 10 percent and red ones at least 10 percent above.

Please note the raw figures for suspensions show the number of students suspended not the total number of suspensions - some students were suspended more than once.


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