Reply to DCPS profiles now have 2013-2014 demographic data

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "DCPS profiles now have 2013-2014 demographic data"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow--Oyster is only 7% Black!  I think that's the lowest percentage in all of DCPS...which is surprising because the school touts its racial diversity.  Several years ago, I think the percentage of Black students at Oyster was at 12 or 13%.[/quote]

Several years ago the city was more black, and both less white and less hispanic.  The English-dominant (aka "white") portion of Oyster is now filled with neighborhood children from Woodley Park (predominately whiter and wealthier).  In the meantime, the Spanish-dominant ("latino") population has skewed much more hispanic, because the school has been able to tighten those requirements.  Adams Morgan (nearby catchment) used to be a lot more diverse both ethnically and economically, but the couple-no-kids population has definitely risen.  There aren't as many Adams Morgan families with children to send to Oyster now.  And Columbia Heights used to have a lot fewer recent immigrants from Central America.  The fast-expanding latino population in DC is centered in CH.  That makes it much more likely that true Spanish-speakers are taking those slots (which you can tell when you see the ethnic flip-flop from lower grades to upper grades).

Having said that, DC in general is diversifying.  Not everybody is going to view that as a good thing.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics