Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Ethnic composition of Beaufort County public schools released
African Americans are 95.7% in one Beaufort County public school
At the request of The Beaufort Tribune following the recent imposition of a fixed quota of African Americans on the new Riverview Charter School in order to reach “racial diversity”, the Beaufort County School District has released a spreadsheet showing the ethnic composition of each school in the county’s public system.
The figures, printed below, show that 95.7% of the students in one of the schools, James J. Davis Elementary, are African Americans, the most racially concentrated school in the district.
The percentage of African Americans in the county’s schools ranges from zero percent in the Daufuskie Island school to 95.7% in James J. Davis Elementary. Other high-percentage African American schools are St. Helena Elementary at 88.9% and Whale Branch Elementary at 71.8%
The percentage of whites in the county’s schools ranges from 4.5% in St. Helena Elementary to 75% in the Daufuskie Island school. Other high-percentage white schools are Coosa Elementary at 70.2% and Hilton Head High School at 61.3%.
Hispanics make up a relatively high percentage of the students in a number of schools, ranging up to 44.5% at Hilton Head Early Childhood Center.
The average of all the schools shows the percentage makeup of Beaufort County’s public schools is 44.6% white, 34.0% African American, 18% Hispanic, and 3.4% other.
The U.S. Office for Civil Rights and the Beaufort County School District recently imposed a fixed racial percentage of African American students on the new Riverview Charter School, pegged at not less than 27.2% African American. Eleven other schools in the district, comprising more than one-third of all the schools, currently have a racial makeup of African American students of less than the 27.2% quota imposed on Riverview.
Here is the complete spreadsheet of the ethnic composition of Beaufort County’s public schools:
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