School boundaries mostly align with segregated housing patterns and efforts to integrate schools — like busing — have stalled.
Not exact matches
At these rapidly changing
schools,
mostly white, middle - and upper - middle - class families are pushing out poor or working - class «out of
boundary» minority families.
Simply put, the odds are stacked against students travelling great distances and crossing city
boundaries to attend these
mostly - minority charter
schools.
High proportions of enrollment at in -
boundary schools is
mostly confined to the western part of the city (within the Wilson HS
boundary), and public charter
school enrollment is higher toward the east.
There are 19 elementary
school neighborhoods (
mostly located in the westernmost part of D.C.) that have high
boundary participation rates above the 75th percentile for all elementary
schools, which is 39.5 percent.