- Verbal contact was affected by school attended, race and sex. School organization matters. Junior High students experience significantly less contact than Middle School students.
- 3 patterns were found in the differences between the schools in within-race and between-race contact: 1) Blacks at JH received significantly less communication from whites than blacks at MS. True even with controls for school, race and gender; race did not limit the amount of verbal contact between black and white students. 2) At MS Black and White students have reciprocal communication. At JH blacks talk to Whites more often than Whites talk to Blacks. 3) Whites had less within race contact at JH than at MS.
- White females get more social interaction than any other group. Black females are the most socially isolated.