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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OSSE used to do more cross-tabulation of student metrics. Using the metric that includes the most students (90% attendance) in the most recent year I could find (2018) and using metric percentages and totals to back out total population numbers, breakdown of at-risk among racial groups was follows:

White 4% at-risk
Asian 12%
Two or more races 23%
Hispanic/Latino 34%
Black/African-American 65%[/quote]

This is unsurprising but doesn't really tell us about middle class people in DC public schools. At risk students are usually, by definition, not middle class.[/quote]

I think it might be surprising for the innumerate people a few pages back who seem to think black = at risk.[/quote]

I’d be careful who I’m calling innumerate, if I were you. A model that’s right 70% of the time is a pretty good model.[/quote]

DP. That is easy to say if you are not black. Now try being one of the 35% of DC public school student who are black but not at risk, and travel through life knowing that most people who interact with you assume you are at risk.

It appears a decent percent of posters on here have been approaching their public school communities assuming all the black kids are living in poverty and all the white kids have parents making 300k. And this is... wrong![/quote]

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