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Statistics on children, youth and families in Florida from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Florida Policy Institute
Definition and Source
PROVIDER
Definition
Disciplinary actions - Florida Department of Education has identifies twelve types of disciplinary actions. Eight of these disciplinary actions are represented within the five listed here. Students are only counted one time within a specific disciplinary action but more than one disciplinary action per student may have occurred during the year.
Race and Hispanic categories are as follows:
White alone, non-Hispanic - a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa;
Black alone, non-Hispanic - a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa;
Other race non-Hispanic - a person choosing one of the following race categories:
White alone, non-Hispanic - a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa;
Black alone, non-Hispanic - a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa;
Other race non-Hispanic - a person choosing one of the following race categories:
- American Indian or Alaskan Native alone- a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment;
- Asian alone- a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam;
- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone- a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands;
- Two or more races - a person having origins of two or more of the above listed racial categories.
Hispanic - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The term, “Spanish origin” can be used in addition to “Hispanic or Latino”.
Data Source
P20 Education Reporting & Accessibility (PERA), Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee, FL
Notes
An asterisk (*) represents data that are suppressed due to confidentiality.
Last Updated
April 2021