. 2013 Oct;103(10):1754–1763. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300986

TABLE 1—

Share of Racial/Ethnic Minority Children and Public Primary School Students in Metropolitan Areas With Segregation (Dissimilarity Indices) in Specified Ranges: 100 Largest US Metropolitan Areas, 2010

	Share of Children at Each Level of Residential Segregation			Share of Primary School Students at Each Level of School Segregation
Segregation Level	Black	Latino	Asian	Black	Latino	Asian
High^a	81.6	32.6	0.0	77.8	54.2	0.1
Medium^b	18.3	67.2	99.0	21.8	45.8	96.4
Low^c	0.0	0.2	1.0	0.5	0.1	3.5
Average level^d	67.6	54.7	49.4	67.1	60.0	47.5

Note. Dissimilarity indices reflect the share of specified minority children or students who would have to move to another census tract or school for each census tract or school to have the same share of specified minority and White children or students as the metropolitan area as a whole. A value of 0 would indicate complete desegregation, and a value of 100 would indicate complete segregation. Percentages may not sum to 100 because of rounding. Asians include Pacific Islanders; Latinos may be of any race. School data reflect 2009–2010 school year.

^{^a}

High segregation refers to levels ≥ 60.

^{^b}

Medium segregation refers to levels of 30–59.

^{^c}

Low segregation refers to levels < 30.

^{^d}

Average segregation level is weighted by the number of children or students of the specified race/ethnicity in each metropolitan area.

Source. diversitydata.org calculations from 2010 Census Redistricting File⁵ for residential segregation and from National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data 2009–2010⁶ for school segregation.