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Examining the Crossroads: School Segregation in Indiana

Authors: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (IU) and Civil Rights Project (UCLA)
Date Published: May 15, 2017

To examine how demographic shifts are changing the composition of Indiana’s schools, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) in collaboration with the Civil Rights Project used Common Core of Data (CCD) school enrollment data, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to illustrate enrollment trends within and across school districts in the last few decades (1988–2015).
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CEEP’S DATA ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL SEGREGATION IN INDIANA

Although Indiana has seen rapid growth in the enrollment of non-White students, due to large-scale residential patterns White students in the majority of districts are quite segregated and interactions between White and non-White students in Indiana remain low. The average Black student in Indiana is likely to attend a school where 68% of the students are non-White, while the average White student in Indiana is likely to attend a school where 19% of the students are non-White.

In some Indiana counties, such as Lake County, Allen County, and Marion County, segregation by race/ethnicity is related to school district boundaries, as well as school attendance boundaries within districts.

Segregation by income level is found in both rural and urban areas. On average, non-White students in Indiana are more likely than White students to attend schools where more than half the students receive free meals.

DATA VISUALIZATIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE.

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