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This is a follow up to “Hey, where the white kids at?” Small Time Crooks dvdrip

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So, if only 5% of Dallas ISD is made up of white children when the city is 30% white, where did all those other white children go?

My first thought was: Kids’ White Flight.  Wikipedia defines White Flight thusly:

White flight

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or urban neighborhoods that are becoming racially desegregated to white suburbs and exurbs.

However, for this to be the case, those missing white students should show up SOMEWHERE in the suburbs or exurbs.  I proceeded to see if this was the case by checking the numbers of the two nearest candidates for White Flight: Richardson ISD and Plano ISD.  If it was true that white students were being sent to other school districts, then the numbers should show a number of white students at either Plano ISD or Richardson ISD that is higher than their populations would predict. I acquired figures from the Texas Education Agency and the US Census, and my findings (with charts, of course) are after the jump.

Student Population v. General Population, RISD

For the Richardson ISD, the numbers clearly show that for Hispanics, African Americans, Asians & Native Americans, the percentage of students of each ethnicity is HIGHER than the percentage of each ethnicity in the general population.  The only ethnic group for whom this is NOT true? Whites, who make up a LOWER percentage of students compared to their percentage to the general population to the tune of 17% (51.7% to 34.6%). So there is no white flight of students to Richardson. If anything Richardson suffers from the same issue as Dallas, if only to a lesser degree.

Now let’s turn to Plano ISD:

Student Population v. General Population, Plano ISD

A few things stick out from this chart about Plano. The first: Plano is overwhelmingly white, with 65.9% of the population being of that ethnicity.  Secondly, Plano, just like Dallas and Richardson, has a negative gap in the percentage of its white population represented in its ISD; in this case, it’s 11.1% (65.9% to 54.8%).  So I believe it’s safe to say that white Dallas students are not attending Plano ISD.

So, where does that leave us to find “where the white kids at?”

I believe that leaves us with only two options:

1. Private Schools.  I find this one difficult since the number of students that would need to be attending public schools would be in the 10s of thousands.
2. There simply aren’t any more white students in Dallas (other than a few in Private Schools).  What’s left inside the DISD boundaries are young single/newly married professionals, or older couples who don’t have school-age children in their homes.

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Now, I don’t know how accurate or recent the information is, but if it is correct, a quick back-of-the-Excel-spreadsheet calculation tells me that just within the Dallas city limits, over 23,000 students are enrolled in private schools.  Even if this number is correct, it wouldn’t mean that they all would be white students, but it would mean that I shouldn’t blow off option #1 as implausible this quickly.  Thanks for the feedback!

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