- The study shows that school segregation and inequality persist.
- Boston metro area is marked by two major trends: suburbanization and the non-White population growth.
- There is unequal racial distribution across the metro area. Whites are disproportionately concentrated in the suburbs, Blacks are concentrated in the city, and Latinos are concentrated in a few cities. Asians are more evenly distributed.
- Students in metro Boston are most segregated in regions where they are highly concentrated. The segregation is by race, ethnicity and increasingly, by language.
- Poverty and race are highly correlated.
- High segregation in Boston is linked strongly to the proportion of credentialed teachers, social and economic differences, and to differences in schooling outcomes such as standardized test scores and graduation rates.
- High poverty/high minority schools have fewer certified teachers.
- Segregated minority schools are less academically successful as measured by state mandated tests.
- High segregated minority/high poverty schools have a 61% passing rate on the English portion of the MCAS, compared to a 96% passing rate in low minority/low poverty schools.
- Less than half of the students at high minority/high poverty schools finish high school on time, compared to more than 3/4 of the students in low minority/low poverty schools.
- Segregation is more a metropolitan issue than an urban issue.