North Carolina schools rank among most economically segregated. Does it matter?

A new national report places North Carolina seventh in the country for economic segregation in public schools. The findings come 72 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling against state-sanctioned racial segregation.

FULL STORY: North Carolina among the most economically segregated schools in the US, report says

Here are key takeaways:

• The “States of Segregation” report, using 2023-24 school year data, ranked North Carolina seventh nationally for economic segregation and 33rd for racial segregation in schools.
• Only the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Nevada, Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut had more economically segregated schools than North Carolina, and most of the state’s economic segregation occurs within school districts rather than between them.
• The poverty rate in the average poor North Carolina student’s school was 30 percentage points higher than the poverty rate in a non-poor student’s school, researchers found.
• Ary Amerikaner, co-founder of Brown’s Promise, said North Carolina’s policymakers have a responsibility to address this problem with proven, practical policy solutions.
• The report also found that the nation’s public schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1970s.

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