We find that Boston’s schools got significantly more integrated during the period of mandatory school desegregation in the 70s and 80s,but that this progress has stalled since 2000.
The final section of this report looks at how evenly Boston is distributing the students who remain across its schools. This has created a growing mismatch between the demographics of kids who attend Boston’s K–12 public schools and the city overall. Today, almost 8 in 10 students remaining in Boston’s public schools are low income (77 percent as of 2014) and almost 9 in 10 are students of color (87 percent as of 2019, almost half of whom are Latino). The families who leave Boston when their kids approach kindergarten are predominantly middle and high income. And, if it weren’t for immigration, Boston’s school-aged population would have decreased even further.īoston has experienced large declines among Black and white kids significant Latino increases have offset some of these decreases, but only partially. Even though our city’s total population has increased from a low point in 1980, we’ve actually lost school-aged population at the same time. In particular, we’re losing families with K–12 school-aged kids. Rather than having one dominant sector, we have large shares of people working in areas ranging from higher education to health care to technology to tourism and hospitality.īut there’s a way in which the rich tapestry of our city has eroded: We’re rapidly losing families with children. We also have diversity across industries, making our economy more flexible and resilient to unforeseen shifts in the national economy. Boston is now 22 percent Black, 20 percent Latino and 9 percent Asian.Central to this growth in racial diversity has been our openness to a new global wave of immigration, with people coming from places like China, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and India. Recently, Boston has gotten much more racially diverse, evolving from being only 20 percent people of color back in 1970 to 56 percent of color today. Diversity is core to what makes many cities vibrant, dynamic, adaptive and strong.
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