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Chicagoland Schools/Race Index

The number of public school students in the eight-county metro area today:

1.38 million

In 1990:

1.1 million

The number of public schools in that area today:

2,287

. Twenty years ago:

1,990

Number of schools that are at least 90% black or 90% Latino today:

457

In 1990:

336

Percent of black and Latino kids in Chicago who attend extremely racially isolated schools today:

63%

In 1990:

56%

Percent of black and Latino kids in the suburbs who attend racially isolated schools today:

13%

Percentage point increase since 1990:

4%

Number of black and Latino kids in those schools:

11,997

then,

48,848

nowCurrent proportion of all black students in the metro area attending highly segregated black schools:

1 in 2

Proportion of black students in Chicago Public Schools in highly segregated black schools:

7 in 10

In 1990:

7 in 10

Decrease in black enrollment in CPS during that time:

56,999 students

Percent of all suburban black students in extremely segregated black schools in 1990:

14.5%

Percent today:

19.6%

Increase in black enrollment in the suburbs in that time:

48,579

Total number of Latino students in the eight-county metro area 20 years ago:

158,583

That number now:

405,570

Proportion of them living in the suburbs:

3 in 5

Overall percent who go to extremely racially isolated schools:

22%

Percent of suburban Latino students in extremely racially isolated schools:

10%

Percent of city Latino students in such schools:

39%

The number of white public school students in the eight-county metro area today:

584,637

Change since 1990:

–

0.2%

Change in Chicago since 1990:

–

24.49%

Proportion of area white students living in the suburbs:

15 in 16

The percent of Chicagoland white students who go to integrated schools, where no race has a majority:

13%

Percent of suburban white kids who attended integrated schools 20 years ago:

7%

Number of integrated

/“no majority”

schools in the eight-county area:

346.

Twenty years ago:

164

Number of integrated

/“no majority”

schools in the city 20 years ago:

106

Today:

66

Year CPS agreed, under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, to integrate more of its schools:

1980

Date the consent decree was lifted:

9/24/2009

Number of majority white schools in Chicagoland that got "whiter" in the last 20 years:

42

Number of those schools in Chicago:

20

The number of racially isolated schools in Chicago Public Schools today:

371.

In 1990:

302

The number of schools with 50% or more Asian students 20 years ago:

0

Today:

3

Percent of those located within a mile of Chicago’s Chinatown:

100%

The number of schools that were at least 70% white in CPS 20 years ago:

0

That number today:

7

Number of suburban schools that are at least 70% white today:

590

Percentage of suburban white students who attend schools that are at least 90% white:

9%

Twenty years ago:

42%

Percentage of Chicagoland white kids who go to majority white schools:

81%

Percent of Chicagoland black kids in majority black schools:

69%

Percentage of Hispanic kids in majority Hispanic schools:

60%

Number of students in schools 20 years ago where their own race was the majority:

850,355 (68%)

Now:

939,901 (77%)