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Charter schools in the West as a region, and in some individual states and communities elsewhere, show some signs of white flight from regular public schools.
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In regions black students are over enrolled in charter schools as compared to their regional public school percentage.
Charter schools segregate students by race and class. Charter schools are more racially segregated that traditional public schools.
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Charter schools enroll a higher percentage of low-income students than traditional public schools. Among schools that report free and reduced lunch data across the nation higher percentages of charter schools contained extreme concentrations of poor students than regular public schools.
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Instead of policy offering parents a real choice out of high poverty, racially isolated schools, charter schools intensify the segregation patterns prevalent in traditional public schools.