Daily News | While New York City public schools are issuing fewer suspensions overall, sharp disparities by race and disability status remain, according to new data.

“We cannot ignore that this decline was not felt equally across the system,” said Maria Odom, executive director of Advocates for Children of New York, which weighed in on the data Tuesday.

As suspensions decreased overall last year, so did what are known as “superintendent’s suspensions,” which can keep students out of class for more than a week. The long-term suspensions, which are reserved for more serious infractions and subject to disciplinary hearings, plummeted by 10% last school year, according to the report.

However, the racial and disability status imbalances were particularly acute for superintendent’s suspensions, Advocates for Children found. Black students, who make up a fifth of all students, received 47% of the lengthy punishments — an increase of 2.4 percentage points from the year before.

Total suspensions were also up for students who were homeless or in foster care, who were suspended at four times the rate of their classmates, according to Advocates for Children’s analysis.

“We’re hoping that the next administration will [understand] punitive discipline is, for the most part, harmful to young people, and does not actually address the root causes of behavior,” said Rohini Singh, director of the school justice project at Advocates for Children.

“Accountability is part of restorative justice,” she added, “helping students understand the harm that their behavior can cause — which can lead them to change their behavior.”