May 17, 2024 - News
North Texas schools are more segregated
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Texas is among the states with the largest growth of intensely segregated schools, defined as schools with 90%-100% nonwhite students.
The big picture: About 15% of Texas schools were intensely segregated in 1988. That figure jumped to 36.4% by 2021, according to a UCLA analysis of federal data.
State of play: Dallas and Fort Worth ISDs have seen more integration among Hispanic students over the past three decades, though segregation among Black students remains high in both districts, per a national analysis by Stanford University.
- The analysis gives districts a segregation rating, with 0 being the least segregated and 1 being the most segregated.
- Dallas ISD has a segregation rating of 0.47 for Black and white students, virtually unchanged since 1991.
- Fort Worth received a rating of 0.43, only slightly lower than in 1991. Both ratings are among the highest in the state.
Zoom in: W.T. White High School, in North Dallas, was a model of integration in 1991 — it was 36.7% white, 28.2% Black and 31.9% Hispanic.
- By 2022, it was 4.3% white, 11.5% Black and 81.7% Hispanic.