Urban fringe of a large city

[raybear]

And here I thought all this time I grew up in a hardcore suburb.


Courtesy of http://www.schooltree.org , here are some facts and figures of my my school now. Only 19 white students and 11 Asian students? Wow. I attended middle school during the second wave of "white flight" in my neighborhood's history, but apparently there was a third one after I left.


Redan High School

Address:
5247 Redan Road
Stone Mountain, GA
30088-2803

Statistics for Redan High School:

School District: Dekalb County
County: De Kalb
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: Urban Fringe of Large City
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 1843
Number of Teachers: 90.20
Teacher to Student Percent: 20.40
Male: 925
Female: 918
Native American: 3
Asian: 11
Black: 1800
Hispanic: 10
White: 19
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 442
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 152
Migrant Students: 0

Comments

This explains almost everything... (here's mine)

[nineinchlovely.livejournal.com]

Statistics for Knoxville Sr High School:

School District: Knoxville C U School Dist 202
County: Knox
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: Small Town
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 331
Number of Teachers: 24.00
Teacher to Student Percent: 13.80
Male: 173
Female: 158
Native American: 0
Asian: 1
Black: 1
Hispanic: 0
White: 329
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 37
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 33
Migrant Students: 0

[milosh.livejournal.com]

what was the racial/ethnic breakdown when you were there?

it's interesting that white flight from urban centers is still happening in some places, while in others, there's like a reverse white flight back *to* centers of cities, so that people of color are being pushed to the fringes. that's definitely happening in nyc (and in chicago, too, right?).

[raybear.livejournal.com]

if i remember correctly, when i was in high school, the numbers quoted often were 80% black, 15% white, and 5% "other" aka everybody else who wasn't black or white and probably primarily asian. according to these current stats, it's now 1% white.

yeah, the reverse white flight is probably less likely to happen in my school only because atlanta is so spread out and integrated/segregated in different ways than some other urban metro areas. and yeah, i think chicago gentrification is definitely an example of what you're talking about.

god, i HATED this school... i couldn't wait to get out... sister school to the "hazing" incident

[vimandvigor.livejournal.com]

Statistics for Glenbrook South High School:

School District: Northfield Twp High Sch Dist 225
County: Cook
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: Urban Fringe of Large City
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 2430
Number of Teachers: 99.99
Teacher to Student Percent: 14.40
Male: 1222
Female: 1208
Native American: 6
Asian: 403
Black: 42
Hispanic: 130
White: 1849
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 0
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 0
Migrant Students: 0

Re: god, i HATED this school... i couldn't wait to get out... sister school to the "hazing" incident

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 0
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 0

damn.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

See, I spent three years here:
Statistics for Royal Valley High:
School District: Royal Valley
County: Jackson
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: "Rural, outside MSA"
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 279
Number of Teachers: 18.90
Teacher to Student Percent: 14.80
Male: 136
Female: 143
Native American: 39
Asian: 1
Black: 0
Hispanic: 6
White: 233
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 53
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 21
Migrant Students: 0

And then I moved here:
Statistics for Topeka High:
School District: Topeka Public Schools
County: Shawnee
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: Mid-Size City
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 2032
Number of Teachers: 99.99
Teacher to Student Percent: 19.40
Male: 988
Female: 1044
Native American: 61
Asian: 22
Black: 411
Hispanic: 306
White: 1232
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 691
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 207
Migrant Students: 17

oh yeah. suburban baby.

[louche.livejournal.com]

School District: Grand Island Csd
County: Erie
Low Grade: 09
High Grade: 12
Locale: Urban Fringe of Large City
Charter: No
Magnet:
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 1035
Number of Teachers: 69.30
Teacher to Student Percent: 14.90
Male: 516
Female: 519
Native American: 3
Asian: 15
Black: 11
Hispanic: 11
White: 995
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 49
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 60
Migrant Students: 0

deja vu

[valenciamiel.livejournal.com]

I lived for six months in Gainesville, FLA when I was ten and my sister 12. Memories are coming back now from looking up her school on that website... she was REALLY badly bullied.

Anyway here's the school:
Howard W. Bishop Middle School
Address:
1901 Ne 9th St
Gainesville, FL
32609-3798
Phone Number: (352) 955-6701

Statistics for Howard W. Bishop Middle School:

School District: Alachua County School District
County: Alachua
Low Grade: 06
High Grade: 08
Locale: Mid-Size City
Charter: No
Magnet:
Title 1 School: No
Title 1 School Wide:
Number of Students: 1149
Number of Teachers: 67.00
Teacher to Student Percent: 17.10
Male: 622
Female: 527
Native American: 1
Asian: 18
Black: 593
Hispanic: 31
White: 506
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 479
Number of Students Receiving Reduced Lunch: 92
Migrant Students: 0