How diverse is your kid's school?

[looseseal]

I don't have statistics on the school(but do for county), but not very. I live in a LCOL,very small Midwest town. We don't have the above average HHI, though.

[shamrockshake]

It's not. at all.

[cinderbella]

I don't have any details - but Lucy's class is sort of famous around school because there are FIVE languages being spoken at the homes of the kids (besides English). (out of 22 kids!)

Her teacher is so amazing.

[cbwm1]

I'd say just under half of the kids at his school are people of color.

Approximately 54% are under the poverty line.

[gummybear]

The school is not diverse at all. But the area is fairly diverse, as is our neighborhood.

ETA: My kids go to Catholic school and it's lily white. The public school for my neighborhood is 40% non-white with the vast majority of minorities being Asian/Pacific Islanders. 

[calamity]

Not diverse  :N:

[sallywalker]

I'm really bothered by these stats. We just got them today. I knew it wasn't the most diverse district, but I didn't know it was this extreme.

[jenny1223]

It's not terribly racially diverse but it is economically.

[Gato]

Our school system is 25% African American, 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiple ethnicities, and 57% Caucasian. I was told by the Principal of DD1's school that her program tracks pretty closely with these numbers.

The median family household income is $46K.

[broadsheet]

The charter school I will send DD1 to next fall is very diverse (roughly 50-50). I live in an area where desegregation is still a very real issue so this was important to me. (If it's relevant, we are white.)

[Deleted]

Like ethnically diverse or HHI diverse? Very for both.

We live in a big internationally friendly city. DS1's public school K class is a rainbow and many of the kids are of mixed ethnicity. I think he is one of three white kids in the class of 14.

The HHI avg is probably high, I would guess $150k or more with the average HHI in my city being around $70k I believe.

But $150k HHI in my VHCOL city is unlikely to be enough to pay for private school and isn't really a 'bubble' if that makes sense. If you're going to one of the established private schools in my city your HHI would be closer to the $500k range.

[lulu13]

I thought it was pretty diverse but I just looked up the stats and its 62% white, 25% two or more races and 10% Hispanic.

My high school (in the same city I'm in now) though is not diverse at all..its 84% Asian now...my elementary school Is 92% Asian.

We are in a VHCOL area in the SF Bay Area.

[textbookcase]

Our district is 88% Hispanic/Latino and median household income is 33k.

[gretchenindisguise]

Not very. I fret about this often.

Looking at the most recent stats I can find: 83% Caucasian, 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 5% 2 or more races. I think the Hispanic and Asian populations are slightly bigger now, but it's still at least 70% Caucasian judging by what I saw at the spring picnic.

[ijack]

Our neighborhood isn't diverse at all, but we send her to a charter school that is much more diverse (at least for CO).
The district is very diverse, but it's very dependent on the neighborhood.

[rageragerage]

His elementary looks like this:

White 48%
Asian or Pacific Islander 22%
Hispanic 14%
Black 9%
Two or more races 5%

15% of students get free/reduced lunch
The median household income is $84,319 per year

I'd say we are in a LCOL, we are white but our son is AA

[oregonpachey]

Very diverse. The state average for minorities is 36% and his school is at 64% (mostly Asian and Hispanic).

[Elsa]

So these are 2014 numbers but for our ISD-
Caucasian- 60.9%
Hispanic- 19.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander- 8.1%
Black- 7.9%
American Indian- 1%
Two or more races- 2.6%

I do believe that the current daycare/school that I have my daughter in right now is more diverse than our ISD....though I don't have stats to prove it. I know the makeup of her current class is very diverse.

[pagas]

It's a private school, so I don't have stats.

Just going through her grade it's 68% white, 12% African American, 10% Asian, 10% Hispanic. I imagine other grades are consistent with that spread.

ETA the public school she would have attended is 36% white, 15% African American, 9% Asian, 40% Hispanic

[frkls]

it's 41% white.

so so much better than where we were.

[meganew]

His preschool is pretty diverse. That was important for us when we moved from Philly to make sure that we weren't taking him from a very diverse classroom and putting him in a school where everyone looks just like him.

[Deleted]

It is more diverse than some, but not as much as I would prefer.

[stephm0188]

Our district isn't at all. 87% white, median income is around $125k in a LCOL area.

[jlt19]

We're at 73% white, 15% black, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multi racial. 45.9% have free or reduced lunch.

In our district of 10+ elementary schools, it's the most diverse and has the highest poverty rate, because there's apparently a large section 8 apartment complex in it.

Seeing as we live in a very white, conservative area (as compared to most of the St. Louis area), I'm glad my kids are going there.

ETA: I found it at k12.niche.com Not sure how accurate it is.

[dale]

DS's goes to a small Catholic school in the next town over. It's about 3/4 white and the remaining 1/4 is split between black and hispanic. The village we live in is 59% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Biracial, 1% Asian.

[illgetthere]

Fairly diverse, but not as much as I had thought.

 This school State average
White 63% 58%
Black 18% 34%
Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander 12% 1%
Hispanic. 4% 5%
Two or more races 2% 1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 1% 1%

Around a quarter free or reduced lunch.

Average household income for our city is 111k while state is 43k.
Our district does really well in having crazy zone lines ensuring all schools are similar

[katiescarlett]

it's pretty diverse both financially and ethnically. it will become more so as the elementary schools combine in the intermediate and high schools.

[Queen Mamadala]

Pretty diverse.

48.1% white
21.9% Hispanic
5% Asian
17.2% black
5.8% two races
0.6% Native American
1.4% Pacific Islander

[auntie]

Not especially. For elementary anyway. His college is very diverse.

70% white, 14% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 1% African American

Attendance rate is 95%, proficient+ at ELA/Math is 77%/87% (far number of ELL students impact ELA)

About 12% of kids in elementary have an IEP.

I'm super offended that "reading remediation" is reported under "Preparation, Motivation and Parental Support". My kid has dyslexia. This was not something that was reflective of a child not being motivated or parents who aren't supportive.

[sweetchix]

Hmm, I thought it was more diverse than it actually is (according to k12.niche.com). But it is SO much better than the school district I went to. If my memory serves me right, there wasn't a minority in our school district until high school, and even then there was only one person.