In 2015, the Confluence Academies charter issued 832 suspensions to students in kindergarten through third grade.

There were no white students enrolled in the district, according to state data.

The Confluence Academies charter is one of at least 79 in Missouri that recorded different types of suspensions: in-and out-of-school.

The charter's 832 total suspensions given to black students work out to a rate of about one suspension for every one black student enrolled.

The charter gave 470 in-school suspensions to black students last year. That works out to a rate of about one suspension for every two black students.

For out-of-school suspensions, the charter gave 362 suspensions to black students last year. That works out to a rate of about one out-of-school suspension for every three black students.

For the 117 out-of-school suspensions of five or more school days, it's a rate of about one suspension for every nine black students.

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In Missouri, during the 2014-15 school year, students in kindergarten through third grade were suspended 21,463 times.

Black students make up about 17 percent of students in those grades. If they were given suspensions at a rate equal to their enrollment, they'd have received 3,574. Instead, they got 11,079 — more than half of all suspensions.

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