The city is one of the 10 worst-performing large school districts in the nation when it comes to African-American boys.
The Schott Foundation for Public Education study looked at graduation rates, performance on national tests and participation in gifted and Advanced Placement classes - and the picture is devastating.
National tests showed 9% of New York's black male eighth-graders were reading at grade level in 2009, compared with 10% in 2003.
In 2008, only 28% of male blacks graduated high school in the city, the same rate as in Philadelphia and Jefferson Parish in New Orleans. White male graduation rates in New York were 50% that year. The city graduation rates were based on the rigorous Regents diploma.
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