NAEP Achievement Gaps - 2011 Table 4

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2011 Black-White Achievement Gap Reports

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Table 4. Percentage distribution of schools in each Black student density category,

by region and by locale type: 2011

Region	Black Student Density Category
Region	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
West	30	10	4	2
South	26	55	60	46
Midwest	29	16	17	33
Northeast	15	19	19	19

Locale Type	Black Student Density Category
Locale Type	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
Rural	48	23	20	12
Town	13	8	9	6
Suburb	22	28	24	15
City	17	41	47	67
NOTE: "Black student density" is the percentage of students in a school who were Black (e.g., schools in the 0-20 percent category had a percentage of students who were Black between 0 and 20 percent). Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Calculations based on the number of schools that offer eighth grade and whose Type = Regular school. (For a definition of a “regular” school, see Common Core of Data documentation at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/psadd.asp.)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2010-11.

Last updated 06 August 2015 (DS)