2018–19 CPS ninth-graders were residentially segregated by race/ethnicity: one racial/ethnic group comprised over 50 percent of ninth-graders in 65 of 77 community areas¶
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q2 i? In 65 of 77 community areas one racial/ethnic group made up over 50 percent of ninth-graders, and in 27 areas over 90 percent came from the same group; Black students were over half of ninth-graders in 30 areas and Latinx students in 26. → McKoy 2021
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McKoy 2021¶
McKoy, D., Usher, A., Nagaoka, J., & Khatri, S. (2021). Approaching Chicago student attainment from a community perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/comm
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Descriptive analysis of the racial/ethnic composition of the 2018–19 CPS ninth-grade class (about 27,000 students) across Chicago's 77 community areas, reported in Chapter 1 and Table 2. The report states this segregation mirrors Chicago's long history of residential segregation by race.
"In 65 of the 77 community areas, one racial/ethnic group comprised over 50 percent of ninth-graders. In 27 community areas, over 90 percent of ninth-graders came from the same racial/ethnic background."
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Related Claims¶
- Ninth-grade enrollment in school types differed by community-area racial/ethnic makeup: 22 of 30 majority-Black areas had at least 25 percent of ninth-graders in charter schools, and no majority-Latinx area had a quarter in selective enrollment — related
- Universal PreK school-based classrooms are about as diverse as first-grade classrooms, while means-tested and community-based classrooms are more segregated — related
- Schools in the United States have resegregated since 1988, with the share of intensely segregated non-white schools more than tripling from about 6% to 19% of all public schools
- African-American students and mostly African-American South Side communities showed less improvement in graduation and dropout rates than other students and North Side communities — related
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2018–19 CPS ninth-graders were residentially segregated by race/ethnicity: one racial/ethnic group comprised over 50 percent of ninth-graders in 65 of 77 community areas |
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2018–19 CPS ninth-graders were residentially segregated by race/ethnicity: one racial/ethnic group comprised over 50 percent of ninth-graders in 65 of 77 community areas |
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2021 |
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2024 |
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