WebCogito

This is a follow up to “Hey, where the white kids at?” and “Did the white kids go to Richardson or Plano?”

In an earlier post we saw that there is a vast difference between the percentage of Dallas residents that are white (30%) and the percentage of white Dallas ISD students (5%).  So what could account for that difference?
In a follow-up post, I dismissed the possibility of a flight to private schools making the difference, since I mentioned it would take tens of thousands of students being enrolled in private school for that to be the case.
Well, since then I’ve been directed to some numbers found in dallasrelo.com, a Dallas relocation site that has enrollment information for Dallas Private Schools.  If the numbers are right, then there ARE tens of thousands of students enrolled in Dallas Private Schools. Follow me after the jump for the comparison between DISD enrollment and Dallas Private School Enrollment.
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