Historical data shows that Montgomery's
white enrollment as a percentage of the entire student body — at more than 90 percent in 1971 — has dipped every year since, while the percentage of Hispanic students has been climbing since 1984.
Not exact matches
We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total
enrollment, percentage of the student body that is
white, average experience of teachers, and school performance,
as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.
Differences in repayment rates may be partly attributable to growing black -
white wage gaps,
as well
as to differences in graduate
enrollment (which allows students to defer loan payments).
But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading
as resegregation: the decreasing
enrollment share of
white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.
Hispanic students have now passed
white students
as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school
enrollment, the Dallas Morning News reports.
And could differences in teachers» expectations of
white students and black students help to explain gaps in key outcomes such
as college
enrollment and completion?
But currently, Latino students lag behind
white students in some key measures of educational attainment, such
as high school graduation,
enrollment in two - or four - year colleges, and college completion rates.
The immediate college
enrollment rate for
White students was higher in 2016 (71 percent) than in 2000 (65 percent),
as was the rate for Hispanic students (71 percent in 2016 and 49 percent in 2000).
Achievement gaps between students of color and
white students are higher than the national average,
as are the gaps between the college
enrollment rates of students of color and
white students.
The event was billed
as both a follow - up to the January
White House summit aimed at boosting low - income
enrollment in higher education
as well
as a continuation of the first lady's initiative — dubbed «Reach Higher» — to promote college
enrollment.
As illustrated in the following figure, adapted from that previous report, the average white student's public school had a black enrollment of about 10 percent in 2010, about the same degree of white exposure to blacks as in 198
As illustrated in the following figure, adapted from that previous report, the average
white student's public school had a black
enrollment of about 10 percent in 2010, about the same degree of
white exposure to blacks
as in 198
as in 1980.
Keep it small:
White and Suggs have purposely kept their
enrollment numbers low
as they look to reach every student.
The observation at the RSCO fair that
white families migrated toward the more niche - themed schools makes sense considering the actual
enrollment in these schools (although, it is interesting to observe that they cited those families
as «predominantly
white» even though the schools with the highest percentage of non-minority students are still all over 50 % black and Latino).
The share of
white students in the Richmond - Petersburg metro declined by almost ten percentage points to 51 % between 1989 and 2010, even
as the share of the black
enrollment remained steady at 37 %.
There are no schools in Howard, Harford or Carroll counties with a black
enrollment as high
as 75 percent, but together those districts have nearly 75 schools that are more than 90 percent
white.
One key finding of the study is that most school districts in central and southern Illinois, which are predominantly
white, saw significant drops in achievement
as their low - income
enrollment rose.
But these days, the connections between low - income
enrollment and lower achievement are being enacted at scale in predominantly
white communities with the same depressing regularity
as they have been for years in low - income communities of color.