In the last post we talked a bit about segregation and I showed how to calculate segregation across Oregon using census tracts to estimate segregation levels in counties. In this post, we’ll do a similar sort of thing, but we’ll look at the segregation of school districts in Oregon by exploring the distribution of demographics across schools within the district.
Racial segregation refers to the “systemic separation of people” based on their race or ethnicity. Plenty of projects have documented that American cities, in particular, are segregated to an alarming degree (for example, see this 2018 article by Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh in the Washinton Post).