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[quote=Anonymous]DC has majority Black high schools across many neighborhood DCPS campuses and a few schools with larger White student populations, often selective or specialized, but none are majority White.

On average, selective schools and schools serving more advantaged families post stronger academic results than schools in lower-income areas. Graduation rates are higher for White students than for Black or Hispanic students across DCPS.

Discipline and school-based arrest data are uneven and concentrated in a subset of schools that also tend to serve higher-poverty communities. Black students are disproportionately represented in those numbers.

Rational, caring parents generally look for strong academics and a safe environment. In DC, the schools with the highest academic outcomes and lowest discipline rates also tend to enroll more White and higher-income students.

That pattern doesn't mean Black students are inherently more prone to misconduct. It reflects concentrated poverty, neighborhood conditions, selectivity, and long-standing structural inequities that shape both opportunity and outcomes.

But anyone who sends their child to a DCPS school in a predominantly Black neighborhood should expect a bad education and violence.[/quote]

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