- A high degree of racial (Black) residential and school segregation and a moderate degree of ethnic (Hispanic) residential and school segregation characterize Miami-Dade County.
- Improving minority students academic performance must focus on the problems and issues that characterize minority communities and schools.
- Magnet schools, while they have created quality education programs, have not been successful in substantially reducing the degree of segregation throughout the district.
- White Hispanics, unlike mixed-race and Black Hispanics, experience decreasing levels of residential segregation that characterize black Hispanics and blacks in Miami-Dade County.
- Despite numerous efforts aimed at desegregation, residential segregation – the primary barrier to significant school desegregation- remains entrenched throughout the US.