In 2015, the St. Louis Public Schools district issued 2,023 suspensions to students in kindergarten through third grade.

Black students make up 83.5 percent of its K-3 population. White students make up 11.4 percent.

None of the suspensions went to white children.

The St. Louis Public Schools district is one of at least 79 in Missouri that recorded different types of suspensions: in-and out-of-school.

The district's 2,023 total suspensions given to black students work out to a rate of about one suspension for every four black students enrolled.

The district gave 1,166 in-school suspensions to black students last year. That works out to a rate of about one suspension for every six black students.

For out-of-school suspensions, the district gave 857 suspensions to black students last year. That works out to a rate of about one out-of-school suspension for every nine black students.

For the 84 out-of-school suspensions of five or more school days, it's a rate of about one suspension for every 89 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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