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How the nation’s growing racial diversity is changing our schools
More students attend schools with children of different races than ever before, but segregation persists in urban districts.
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output_data - Output data file that includes the following for school districts during the 1994-1995 and 2016-2017 school years:
- leaid: unique school district identifier
- lea_name: school district name
- st: state of school district
- school_year: school year
- aian, asian, black, hispanic, white, multi: proportion of student population for each race
- total: number of students
- diverse: the level of diversity, defined as "Diverse", "Undiverse" and "Extremely undiverse"
- variance: the variance ratio
- int_group: the level of integration, defined as "Highly integated", "Somewhat integrated" and "Not integrated"
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analysis - R Markdown file that generates summary tables and output file
This data predominantly relies on the Common Core of Data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Links to the underlying data are provided in the R Markdown file.
Additional details for this analysis can be found in the methdology section of the story.
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