Suburban schools are seeing dramatic surges in segregation as white enrollments fall and Latino enrollments jump, according to two reports and an Axios review of federal data.
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By the numbers: During the past decade, the nation’s 25 largest suburban areas saw the number of intensely segregated school districts — defined as districts that are 90%-100% nonwhite students — double, according to a UCLA Civil Rights Project report.
- From 2010 to 2020, the share of Black and Latino intensely segregated school districts rose to 10%, the report found.
- In 2020, about 7% of suburban districts were 90% to 100% white, a decline from 18% in 2010.
- The typical Black and Latino student in the suburbs attended a school in a district that was just 25% white, the report said.
Zoom in: About 30% of the nation’s entire public school enrollment is in those largest 25 suburban areas.
- In 10 years, those suburban schools saw a steep drop of about 850,000 white students and more than 1 million new Latino students, a shift reflecting how Latinos are one of the nation’s fast-growing ethnicities.
An Axios review of schools in the suburbs using the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University tool found an even more dramatic rise in segregation since 1991.
- In 1991, McCoy Elementary in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school system northwest of Dallas had an enrollment that was 84% white, 5% Black and 4% Latino.
- In 2022, its enrollment was less than 19% white, with 75% students of color.
- Eisenhower High School in Houston — which then-President George H.W. Bush praised for its diversity — was 31% white, 41% Black, 18% Latino and 11% Asian American in 1991.
- Today, Eisenhower is 1% white and 98% students of color, mainly Latino.
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