How diverse is your kid's school?

[mrsjuleshs]

48% white. Economically, not very diverse AT ALL!

[eddy]

35% on FRL

35% non white

And they are closing our school.  We will end up in a school that is much much less diverse. It pisses me off.

[devonpow]

I don't have the individual school information, but for the district:

- 5.9% African American
- 18.8% Asian
- 10.1% Hispanic
- 53.3% white

The rest multi race non Hispanic

Its definitely a bit of a bubble where we are. The neighborhood itself is much less diverse - the schools participate in a program where kids from Boston are bussed to our schools and that contributes to the school diversity we have.

[sparkythelawyer]

About as diverse as a bag of Wonder Bread.

[birdistheword]

No kids, but the district I work for is 94% white. Very socioeconomically diverse, but obviously very, VERY not racially diverse.

[gretchenindisguise]

Huh, this is interesting. Our sister school right down the road is much more diverse - 65% Caucasian and 26% Hispanic. I think our school lines pull mostly from single family and townhomes and their school pulls more from the apartment complexes around. It's odd to me that schools less than a mile apart in the same district would be so disparate.

They both feed into the same middle school.

[hopecounts]

Not diverse at all.

[irishbride2]

IIRC it is about 70% white. Private school.

[katfco]

Out of 474 students, 418 are white, 42 are more than one race, 9 are black and 5 are Hispanic. Half qualify for free lunch.

Abby's school for kindergarten and first grade was much more diverse.

[readyin07]

Reading these makes me feel depressed that we're not better integrated. Sigh. Anyway, one of the benefits of living in south Florida is that a single geographic area is usually pretty diverse. So many of our public schools are diverse. DS1's school is a Title 1 school and is economically and fairly racially diverse. 40% Caucasian, 41% Hispanic, 7% African American, 4% Mixed Race and 3% Asian.

[W.T.Faulkner]

I work at a school that is 99% black and 88% free or reduced-price lunch. I went to a school that was 98% white.

I'm teaching Brown v. Board of Education tomorrow in class and it feels like kind of a fucking joke.

[lilafowler]

2015-2016 school year:
African American 8.7%
Asian 41.6%
Hispanic 8%
Native American 0%
White 36.2%
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 2.3%
Multi-Race, Non-Hispanic 3.3%

[tellmesomethingood]

Not at all diverse. I would have to drive her an hour+ each way to find a diverse school.



ETA: 93% white. 

[mandymay]

My daughter's school was (as of last year):

52.4% Hispanic
34.6% Asian
7.3% Caucasian
1% African American, Filipino, and Pacific Islander
1.3% 2 or more races
1% declined to answer

[lostrn]

His school doesn't seem too bad, 35% reduced lunch, 41% white, 28% Hispanic, 16% african american, 7% Asian and 6% multiracial. Per k12.niche anyway. I don't know about HHI but just personal observation at the bus stop and birthday parties I think we are all over the map there.

[themysteriouswife]

How would I find this info?

[maddysmum]

Not very.

Better than it was. When we moved into the neighbourhood only 5 years ago, the school was almost 100% white. I'd say 100% but how often are stats that cut and dried? A friend was a teacher there a few years before that and remembers when one lone Aboriginal boy entered the school temporarily and that was the sum total of their diversity. It was ridiculous.

But now, we've got a ton more diversity which is lovely. It was the only thing I didn't like about our school (particularly coming from a very diverse school which was SO awesome, and celebrated our diversity so enthusiastically and genuinely) but at least, in one respect, it's changing.

It's not remotely economically diverse and I do tend to get a bit uppity about that. Like when devices are required - pretty big assumption that all children will have access to an expensive piece of technology. (And they do - there's no economic diversity. But that's not the point.)

[eb777888]

Fairly diverse. What's funny is that his private school is wayyyyyy more diverse than the charter school we just left.

[lovelovelove]

Her private preschool student makeup is semi-diverse, but it's a tiny school. The staff is super diverse and majority English is not first language.

I checked the stats for the public system she'll attend starting k and it's 73% white, 11% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 3% multi-race non hispanic, 2% AA. 11% economically disadvantaged, 17% first language not english, 26% high needs.

Hopefully by the time she's enrolled it's more diverse.

[sandyapples]

I don't have statistics for her school, but I'm sure it is about the same as the small town/suburb we live in. 90% white, with a small population of Chinese, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Black students. Economically it is pretty solid middle/upper middle class. We don't really have any option to go to a more diverse school.

[foodiemom]

Ethnically not at all. 89% Caucasian

It says 20% are economically challenged, whatever that means. Not sure how to find the income ranges but I would love to know. We are in what I consider MCOL but I am comparing it to areas we came from with are high to very high.

[my3boyz]

Their school is pretty racially diverse, over 50% minorities. There's less than 10 % socioeconomic diversity though based on free or reduced lunch. It's a newer area, most neighborhoods were built since 2000 so the cost of housing is high.

[papie]

Very similar to what you are saying. There is some racial and ethnic diversity but not socioeconomic.

[Jalapeñomel]

I realize daycare isn't school, but regardless, D is the only white child., and come from a variety of income levels.

[scorpio72]

Our general area is fairly diverse but our elementary school isn't really diverse. 74% white, 9% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% black. 

Our high school, however, is a lot more diverse. 41% white, 34% Hispanic, 10% Asian and 10% black. 

These schools are within 2 miles of each other. 

[dcrunnergirl52]

DD and DS1's school is very diverse. DD is the only caucasian child in her class. There's maybe 4 caucasian children in DS1's class of 18 students. It's also economically diverse.

On the whole, our country school district is very diverse, but there are pockets of the county that are much less diverse than others.

[killercupcake]

Not a parent, but these are the numbers for the school where I work:

African American: 10.14%
Asian: 17.45%
Hispanic: 52.51%
White: 13.76%
2 or more: 4.41%

Free and reduced lunch: 60.99%

This was from the 14-15 school year.

[sessy]

My kids go to the most equally diverse school in the city. It's racially and economically diverse which I appreciate greatly.

Asian 36%
Hispanic 17%
Black 15%
White 13%
Two or more races 7%
Filipino 6%
Pacific Islander 2%

[onesweetworld]

Extremely diverse.

50% of children speak English at home and 50% speak another language (no breakdown of which languages). The average income is in line with the average for the whole city -- $70k/yr per 2011 stats. The neighbourhood is a downtown, mix-used area with both renters and homeowners.

The BBC just declared Toronto as the most multicultural city in the world so it's pretty standard especially in the public school system.

m.metronews.ca/#/article/news/toronto/2016/05/16/toronto-the-diverse.html

[Marmee]

They go to a private school less than a mile away.

Racially, not very 84% white/ 6% or less everything else.

Socio-economically, not very. It was full of pretty well-off people when we started 8yrs ago but it's gotten much "worse" in that regard since. Seems like everyone (except us) lives in a $1M+ house.

Our neighborhood school is about 30/30/30 black, white & Hispanic. I'd guess there is some variety of economic diversity. 60% of the kids there choice in from other neighborhoods so it's not super representative of immediate area, though the neighborhood is much more diverse than the kid's school indicates.