- Racial and ethnic diversity appears to have positive educational impacts.
- Students who attend multiracial schools, including whites, responded positively to nearly all of these attitudinal questions to a higher degree than do students who attend less diverse and racially isolated schools.
- Students of all racial backgrounds, throughout the district, report a high level of desire to live and work with people different from themselves.
- Student report that they feel prepared to interact and participate in democratic processes with people who are different from themselves, and further reported that they believe school experiences have increased their desire and ability to do so.
- Student’s perceptions of the support they received towards higher educational attainment are quite similar between different racial/ethnic groups. However, there are also less positive findings, particularly with regard to support for students to take honors or AP courses.
- On nearly all outcomes, we see a higher degree of positive responses from students who attend multiracial schools than from students who do not. This is particularly true for whites, who demonstrate the most negative attitudes in schools where they are a very small minority.