Mapping Schoolhouse Segregation

Sixty years afterward the 'Brown vs Board of Education' Supreme Court ruling that nation laws establishing separate world schools for dark together with white students was unconstitutional many schools inward the USA remain, to all intents together with purposes, segregated past times race.

Diversity inward New York City's Schools is a Google Map visualizing the largest racial grouping inward each New York school. Each schoolhouse is represented past times a dot, colored to bring out the largest racial grouping inside that school. If y'all direct a school's marking on the map y'all tin persuasion a breakdown of that school's racial make-up.


The Miami Herald's written report into The Changing Demographics of Miami-Dade Schools includes a revealing interactive map, which allows readers to explore the demographic of 460 Miami-Dade schools.

The map uses colored map markers to highlight schools on the map where 85% or to a greater extent than of the students are dark or Hispanic. You tin direct private schools on the map to persuasion the consummate demographic make-up of the pupil body, with percentages for the number of black, white, Hispanic together with 'other' students.


The sectarian separate inward Northern Republic of Ireland has resulted inward a large proportion of people living inward areas where the population are either predominantly Protestant or predominantly Roman Catholic. To overcome this religious 'apartheid' together with to ensure that the children of both religions are non segregated Northern Republic of Ireland needs inclusive schools, schools where pupils are able to mix together with larn with children of other religions.

Unfortunately Northern Ireland's schools are every bit segregated every bit the residual of Northern Republic of Ireland society. According to The Detail "almost one-half of Northern Ireland’s schoolchildren are beingness taught inward schools where 95% or to a greater extent than of the pupils are of the same religion".

The Detail has used information from the Department of Education to map the religious segregation inward Northern Ireland's schools. The Detail's Segregated Schools map reveals the pct of Roman Catholic together with Protestant pupils inward each of Northern Ireland's schools.