- On average, the racial composition of regular public elementary schools mirrors the racial composition of the local neighborhood.
- As predicted, residential housing patterns are a major determinant of metropolitan-wide levels of school segregation.
- Regular public elementary schools in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area were, on average, slightly more integrated than their local neighborhoods.
- Schools in the other four metropolitan areas were, on average, slightly less integrated than their neighborhood, with the Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa metro area experiencing the lowest level of relative integration.
- Magnet schools, on average, are significantly more integrated than regular schools and charter schools are significantly less integrated then regular schools.
- Almost 30 percent of charter schools are less integrated than the surrounding neighborhood, while less than ten percent of regular and magnet schools fall into this category.
- About 20 percent of magnet schools are more integrated than the surrounding neighborhood, while less than ten percent of regular and charter schools fall into this category.
- Differences between regular, magnet, and charter schools persists even after statistically controlling for other metropolitan, district, school, and neighborhood characteristics that might affect relative levels of integration.