This type
of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student
demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels
of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to
surrounding school district or metropolitan
area) and can complicate the drawing
of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.
Alpharetta real estate sales tend to be more stable than some
of the
surrounding areas in Metro Atlanta because
of the strong local economy, good schools, lower crime statistics and
demographics so if we are seeing lower trends here, we would likely see them in other
areas of Atlanta as well.