The States with the Most Disciplinary Problems in Schools

Researchers have taken a look at discipline in schools across the United States. Compiling together their data, they created a Discipline Score for each state and ranked them based on that.

StartClass used six different metrics to get their scores:

• Percent of students arrested.
• Percent of students referred to law enforcement.
• Percent of students expelled.
• Percent of students with one or more out-of-school suspensions.
• Percent of students with one or more in-school suspensions.
• Percent of students put in seclusion.

The scores range from 0 to 6, with 6 indicating disciplinary problems. Here are the Top Ten states with their Discipline Scores:

1. Illinois – Discipline Score: 4.56
2. Missouri – Discipline Score: 4.48
3. South Carolina – Discipline Score: 4.48
4. Kansas – Discipline Score: 4.16
5. Indiana – Discipline Score: 4.14
6. Montana – Discipline Score: 4.1
7. Connecticut – Discipline Score: 4.08
8. Mississippi – Discipline Score: 4.04
9. Oklahoma – Discipline Score: 4.02
10. New Mexico – Discipline Score: 3.74

Iowa ranked in at #37 with a Discipline Score of 2.66.

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