ASIAN SEGREGATION
Suburban U.S. school districts with the highest Asian student segregation in 2006-2007:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Rank/district
State
Dissimilarity index*
Montebello Unified DeKalb County Pasadena ISD Fulton County Hacienda La Puente Unified Rowland Unified Fort Bend ISD Chino Valley Unified Knox County School District Lodi Unified
California Georgia Texas Georgia California California Texas California Tennessee California
0.67 0.56 0.55 0.53 0.52 0.50 0.42 0.42 0.41 0.40
* Measures the evenness of the spread of students across schools in a school district. It ranges from 0 (complete integration) to 1 (complete segregation). Source: Pew Hispanic Center
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