Chart: Black children are five times as likely as white children to attend schools that are highly segregated by race and ethnicity: Shares of white and black eighth-graders attending schools with a high concentration of students of color, 2017

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Black children are five times as likely as white children to attend schools that are highly segregated by race and ethnicity: Shares of white and black eighth-graders attending schools with a high concentration of students of color, 2017

Race	High-minority (51-100%)
White	12.9%
Black	69.2%

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Note: Schools with a high concentration of students of color are those in which 51–100% of students are black, Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian.

Source: Author’s analysis of microdata from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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