Chicagoland Schools/Race Index

The number of public school students in the eight-county metro area today: 1.38 million In 1990: 1.1 million The number of public schools in that area today: 2,287. Twenty years ago: 1,990 Number of schools that are at least 90% black or 90% Latino today: 457 In 1990: 336 Percent of black and Latino kids in Chicago who attend extremely racially isolated schools today: 63% In 1990: 56% Percent of black and Latino kids in the suburbs who attend racially isolated schools today: 13% Percentage point increase since 1990: 4% Number of black and Latino kids in those schools: 11,997 then, 48,848 now Current proportion of all black students in the metro area attending highly segregated black schools: 1 in 2 Proportion of black students in Chicago Public Schools in highly segregated black schools: 7 in 10 In 1990: 7 in 10 Decrease in black enrollment in CPS during that time: 56,999 students Percent of all suburban black students in extremely segregated black schools in 1990: 14.5% Percent today: 19.6% Increase in black enrollment in the suburbs in that time: 48,579 Total number of Latino students in the eight-county metro area 20 years ago: 158,583 That number now: 405,570 Proportion of them living in the suburbs: 3 in 5 Overall percent who go to extremely racially isolated schools: 22% Percent of suburban Latino students in extremely racially isolated schools: 10% Percent of city Latino students in such schools: 39% The number of white public school students in the eight-county metro area today: 584,637 Change since 1990: 0.2% Change in Chicago since 1990: 24.49% Proportion of area white students living in the suburbs: 15 in 16 The percent of Chicagoland white students who go to integrated schools, where no race has a majority: 13% Percent of suburban white kids who attended integrated schools 20 years ago: 7% Number of integrated/no majority schools in the eight-county area: 346. Twenty years ago: 164 Number of integrated/no majority schools in the city 20 years ago: 106 Today: 66 Year CPS agreed, under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, to integrate more of its schools: 1980 Date the consent decree was lifted: 9/24/2009 Number of majority white schools in Chicagoland that got "whiter" in the last 20 years: 42 Number of those schools in Chicago: 20 The number of racially isolated schools in Chicago Public Schools today: 371. In 1990: 302 The number of schools with 50% or more Asian students 20 years ago: 0 Today: 3 Percent of those located within a mile of Chicagos Chinatown: 100% The number of schools that were at least 70% white in CPS 20 years ago: 0 That number today: 7 Number of suburban schools that are at least 70% white today: 590 Percentage of suburban white students who attend schools that are at least 90% white: 9% Twenty years ago: 42% Percentage of Chicagoland white kids who go to majority white schools: 81% Percent of Chicagoland black kids in majority black schools: 69% Percentage of Hispanic kids in majority Hispanic schools: 60% Number of students in schools 20 years ago where their own race was the majority: 850,355 (68%) Now: 939,901 (77%)