Racial Change in Suburbia: America’s Diversifying Elementary Districts and their Effect on School Segregation

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Bryan Mann, University of Kansas

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Project Citation: 

Mann, Bryan. Racial Change in Suburbia: America’s Diversifying Elementary Districts and their Effect on School Segregation. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207903V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We examine residential demographic change using a novel dataset derived from a geographic technique that leverages satellite imagery with 2000 and 2020 census data. We then analyze the effects of demographic change on student isolation and dissimilarity in elementary school districts. Our findings indicate that most elementary districts have changed, but the changes are uneven. The number of districts with severe white isolation declined, particularly in suburban locales. Meanwhile, districts with severe student of color isolation increased, particularly in urban locales. These changes indicate that increasing diversity for white students has coincided with greater isolation for students of color. These findings should prompt scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of suburban school districts.

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source NCES and Census
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation School districts
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit School district

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