States with highest rate of discipline incidents, 2014-15

Federal statistics tally the number of discipline incidents that led to a student's removal from class for at least one full day.
June 6, 2017

For every 100,000 students in U.S. public schools in 2014-15, there were 2,583 discipline incidents that resulted in the removal of a student from a regular education program for at least an entire schools day, according to the federal government's Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016.

Here are the states that reported the highest rates of discipline incidents.

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