High School Lottery: What other schools would you place on your list if your DC wants to go to ..

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Anonymous wrote:Banneker

94% Black or Latino

That a problem? And isn't Banneker a better school than Wilson?

Did you even read what the OP is actually looking for in a school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/landscape-of-diversity-in-dc-public-schools/

They explain that the diversity score of 50/50 Hispanic/AA is considered diverse.

Actually they do a much better job than that of explaining what diversity can mean in different settings and then defining how they are using it within their organization. It is a very good read. Thanks for posting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/landscape-of-diversity-in-dc-public-schools/

They explain that the diversity score of 50/50 Hispanic/AA is considered diverse.

Actually, it says: "For example, a school with a student body that is 50 percent Latino and 50 percent African American would be considered just as diverse as a student body that is 50 percent African American and 50 percent white." They are not defining "diverse" so much as measuring diversity in each school according to whatever group is the plurality among four defined groups: Black, White, Hispanic, Other (which included Asian). So if the plurality is 60% of the school, the diversity score is 40. If all 4 groups are equal (no plurality) the diversity score is 75, which is the highest score possible. A school reflecting the exact population of DC students would have a score of 32. A school with only one group would have a score of zero, which is about 110 of DC's schools.

So based on their scoring system, the ideal diversity, the highest score of 75, is a school that has no plurality and equal representation of the four defined groups.

So, the 50/50 school would have a score of 50, but Walls would be considered more diverse with a current score of 57. Wilson is closest to that ideal with a score of 66 (note the study used older numbers than the current stats, but Wilson was still the highest, tied with Yu Ying.)

Also interesting, but not surprising: "The most racially and ethnically diverse schools are more likely to have a plurality of white students than other schools. Schools with a plurality of white students have a median racial and ethnic diversity score of 47 percent, where white students comprise no more than 53 percent of students on average, followed by schools with a plurality of Latino students with a score of 42 percent. Schools with a plurality of African American students, which comprise 39 percent of the most diverse schools, are under-represented among diverse schools: 76 percent of all schools have a plurality of African American students and only 11 percent of schools have a plurality of white students."