Apparently, even 5-year-old tots can be terrors.
A number of city public schools suspended kids in kindergarten for misbehaving last year — including three schools that hit the double-digit mark.
PS 212 in Brooklyn registered 13 suspensions of kindergarten this past school year, followed by PS 13 in Staten Island with 12 suspensions and PS 115 in Brooklyn with 10.
The detailed database doesn’t show schools with fewer than 10 suspensions per grade or indicate what prompted the punishment.
But it shows that 7 schools had at least 10 suspensions of first graders last year and that 17 registered double-digit suspension numbers for second graders.
In fact, two schools — PS 106 in Queens and PS 272 in Brooklyn — administered roughly a dozen of the longer, more serious superintendent suspensions for kids in second grade.
“It’s troubling, because a lot of these kids are being suspended for behaviors that could be dealt with in a more constructive fashion,” said Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children. “We think suspension is very much a last resort because it removes a child from the classroom and it doesn’t teach them appropriate behavior.”
Overall, school suspensions climbed by 2.4 percent in 2010-11 — to 73,441 — compared to the year prior.
Lehman HS in The Bronx, one of the larger schools in the city, scored the highest number of suspensions last year, with 2,097.
The data also continued to show a troubling trend where black students and special education students are suspended in disproportionately high numbers.
Black students, who comprise about one-third of the school system, accounted for more than half of last year’s suspensions.
Similarly, special education students, who make up about 16 percent of the schools population, accounted for more than 31 percent of the suspensions.
“We all would like to see the suspension numbers come down and want to dig in to the data where we see big disparities in race and ethnicity,” said schools chancellor Dennis Walcott. “We also want to make sure that we are trying mediation and counseling where possible before suspending students.”
Other trends in the suspension data showed that:
— IS 5 in Queens had the highest incidence of kids punished for using drugs or alcohol in school, with 19 suspensions. The elite New Explorations into Math and Science Technology HS in Manhattan was fourth in the city, with 10.
— JHS 144 in The Bronx led all schools in the number of month-long superintendent suspensions, with 30
— PS 219 in Brooklyn led all middle and elementary schools in the number of student assaults on school security or other staffers, with 16
— Sunset Park HS in Brooklyn had the highest number of kids punished for inciting riots, with 15.
The data, which the Department of Education was compelled to provide to City Council because of a new law, also showed that 1,024 of the suspended kids ended up transferring to other schools after being punished. A dozen additional suspended kids were forced to transfer elsewhere.