School segregation in the United States was officially outlawed in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education. And yet, more than 65 years later, its vestiges remain throughout the country.
to see which parts of the country have the most and least segregated public and private K-12 schools and how those levels of segregation have changed over time.
“Any [legal] remedy of segregation has to be confined to the district that has been found guilty,” said Steven Taylor, an associate professor in the department of government at the School of Public Affairs at American University. “If there’s a segregated school within a county, you have a large area where you can desegregate the schools, unlike in the Northeast.”Little has changed with school segregation across the U.S. over the past 25 years, according to Segregation Index data.
“A lot of it has to do with negative feelings about their kids going to school with Black students,” Taylor said. “But they also don’t want resources taken out of their children’s schools and put into other schools.”The most segregated metro areas today are primarily located in places that became destinations for Southern Black people during the Great Migration from 1916 to 1970.
It’s a trend seen across the country, exacerbated by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Education.
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