Student Law Enforcement Referrals and Arrests by Disability 2017-18

U.S. Department of Education data details student referrals to law enforcement and student-related arrests, segmented by disability status, for the 2017-18 school year. The dataset covers all states and includes counts of incidents by offense type. It is part of the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between disability status and student referrals to law enforcement across all states.
• Compare state-level counts of student-related arrests by disability category to identify disparities.
• Examine the distribution of incidents by type of offense for students with and without disabilities.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative U.S. Department of Education.
• Covers a complete national scope, including all states for the 2017-18 period.
• Includes specific metrics on law enforcement referrals and arrests segmented by disability.

Limitations

• Data is from the 2017-18 school year and may not reflect current conditions.
• The underlying Excel (XLS) format may require conversion for modern analysis tools.
• Specific row counts and column details are unavailable, limiting precision on dataset scale.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Education

Collection Method

Collected via the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) survey.

Time Range

2017-18 school year

Freshness

Last updated in October 2024, though the data itself is from the 2017-18 school year.

Geography

United States, all states