Shaping Income Segregation in Schools: The Role of School Attendance Zone Geography

This study investigates how much the geographic shapes of school attendance zones contributes to their levels of income segregation while holding constant levels of income segregation across residential areas. Income segregation across attendance zones is measured with the rank ordered information t...

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Published in:American educational research journal 2017-12, Vol.54 (6), p.1345-1377
Main Author: Saporito, Salvatore
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attendance
Correlation
Educational research
Elementary School Students
Geographic Information Systems
Grade 1
Grade 7
Income
Indexes
Institutional Characteristics
Middle School Students
National Surveys
Neighborhoods
Prediction
Proximity
Regression (Statistics)
School attendance
School Districts
Social Differences
Statistical Analysis
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Summary:This study investigates how much the geographic shapes of school attendance zones contributes to their levels of income segregation while holding constant levels of income segregation across residential areas. Income segregation across attendance zones is measured with the rank ordered information theory index. Income segregation across residential areas is measured using a spatial variant of segregation (newly developed to predict income segregation in school attendance zones). Findings indicate income segregation across residential areas is highly correlated with income segregation across attendance zones. Still, school districts with the most irregularly shaped zones have less income segregation than school districts with compact zones—net of residential income segregation.
ISSN:0002-8312
1935-1011
DOI:10.3102/0002831217724116