NAEP Achievement Gaps - 2011 Table 6

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2011 Black-White Achievement Gap Reports

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Table 6. Percentage distribution of schools in each region, by Black student density

category and locale type: 2011

Northeast
Locale Type	Black Student Density Category
Locale Type	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
Rural	35	3	1	#
Town	11	2	1	1
Suburb	42	30	32	13
City	12	64	66	86

Midwest
Locale Type	Black Student Density Category
Locale Type	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
Rural	56	5	3	1
Town	16	4	1	#
Suburb	17	32	28	17
City	11	59	67	82

South
Locale Type	Black Student Density Category
Locale Type	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
Rural	56	37	31	24
Town	13	14	14	12
Suburb	17	26	21	15
City	14	23	34	49

West
Locale Type	Black Student Density Category
Locale Type	0-20	20-40	40-60	60-100
Total	100	100	100	100
Rural	39	12	4	0
Town	12	#	0	0
Suburb	22	24	20	14
City	27	64	76	86
# Rounds to zero.
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 (TO)