In 2015, the Hancock Place district issued 227 suspensions to students in kindergarten through third grade.

Black students make up 15.3 percent of its K-3 population. White students make up 71.1 percent.

Those suspensions went to both black and white students.

The Hancock Place district is one of at least 79 in Missouri that recorded different types of suspensions: in-and out-of-school.

Here’s the breakdown of the district's suspensions from last year:

It gave 54 — or 28.9 percent — of its in-school suspensions to black students. White students received 91 — or 48.7 percent of these suspensions.

That works out to a rate of about one in-school suspension for every one black student and about one in-school suspension for every four white students.

Here’s the picture for out-of-school suspensions:

It gave 25 — or 62.5 percent — of its out-of-school suspensions to black students. White students got 15 — or 37.5 percent of these suspensions.

That works out to a rate of about one out-of-school suspension for every three black students and about one out-of-school suspension for every 21 white students.

Crave even more context?

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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