Numerous studies highlight that novice teachers continually struggle with implementing classroom management. Unable to manage their classroom, novice teachers often resort to referring students to administration as a punitive form of classroom management (i.e., discipline). Studies show that Black students, particularly in middle school, are the largest recipients of exclusionary outcomes (i.e., out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and referrals to law enforcement) as the result of a teacher's office referrals. Utilizing a hierarchical multiple regression model, the present study seeks to determine if the percentage of novice teachers in middle school predicts the number of out-of-school suspensions that Black students receive.