ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL

DIVERSITY AUDIT: FICTION

BENCHMARKS

ROMBOUT ENROLLMENT BY
ETHNICITY 2020-2021

Multiracial
7.6% Black or African American
17.7%

2020 US CENSUS DATA

Black or African American 13.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native 1.3%
White
41.6% Asian 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino
29.6% Native Hawaiian and/or
other Pacific Islander .2%
Two or more races 2.8%
Asian or Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander
3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 18.5%
White (not Hispanic or Latino) 60.1%
ROMBOUT OTHER GROUPS:
People with disabilities 8.7%
Students with Disbilities: 18%

DIVERSITY OF ROMBOUT'S FICTION COLLECTION

Using Mackin's TitleMatch/Tag Report
Diversity tool, 632 unique titles received
diversity tags, representing a sample of 11.2%
of the fiction collection (5,620 titles). Note:
This is not a random sample.
TITLES % OF COLLECTION WITH DIVERSITY TAG MATCHES

African/Black/African-American 299 titles 5.3%

Own Voices 228 titles 4.1%

Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian-American 116 titles 2.1%

Latinex/Hispanic 59 titles 1.1%

People with Disabilities 55 titles 1%

Indigenous Peoples 43 titles .8%

LGBTQIA 27 titles .5%

Neurodiverse 24 titles .4%

14 titles .3%
North African/Middle Eastern

Carribean 3 titles .05%

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DATA HIGHTLIGHTS & COMPARISONS SETTING DIVERSITY TARGETS

Did you know? A 2020 survey found that 9.5% 29.6% of Rombout's students are
of youth between 13-17 identify as LGBT.* Hispanic or Latino, higher than the
national average of 18.5%
1.1% of the collection received tags for
9.5% 0.5% featuring LatinexHispanic main
characters
18% of Rombout's students have
LGBT Youth 13-17 Collection disabilities
1% of the collection received tags tags
for featuring main characters with
disabilities
Rombout Students Collection
30 17.7% of Rombout's students are Black or
African-American, higher than the
national average of 13.4.
5.3% of the collection received tags for
featuring Black or African-American
20
characters
9.5% of youth between 13-17 identify as
LGBT.
.5% of the collection received tags for
10
featuring LGBTQ+ main characters

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References
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Conron, K.J. LGBT Youth Population in the United States.

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(September 2020). The Williams Institute, UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA.