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[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%
[b]Black/African-American 65%[/quote][/b]

Sad.[/quote]

A lot of factors at play here but a major reason for this is that huge numbers of working and middle class black families left DC (many for PG county) in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. I personally don't see this trend happening anymore and even know people whose parents moved them to PG in the 90s but they've recently moved back to the city and plan to raise kids here, but it changed the demographics of DC a lot. Being black and middle class is really hard in DC, not least because so many people think you're a unicorn or don't actually exist at all.

Charters and the improvement of schools on the East side have made it easier though. Lots of middle class black families at schools on the Hill and the popular NE charters. You also see a strong contingent of middle class black parents working to improve schools like JO Wilson, Payne, Burroughs. From the outside, people often only see the white familes deciding to choose these schools in higher numbers, and the increasing numbers of MC black families making the same choice are invisible because of assumptions about black students generally.[/quote]

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