A dot plot demonstrates that for each category of race and ethnicity, students identified as homeless are suspended at a higher rate than students not identified as homeless. The rate of suspension is the highest for students who are homeless and African American.

Higher suspension rates for homeless students

Across all race and ethnicity categories in California data, children identified as homeless are suspended at higher rates than their peers.

To calculate the "all other students" suspension rate, we divided the difference of the unduplicated count of all students suspended and the unduplicated count of homeless students suspended by the difference of total cumulative enrollment and homeless cumulative enrollment.
Chart: Center for Public IntegritySource: Analysis of California Department of Education data, 2021-22Created with Datawrapper