A moving target: Black middle-class parents school strategies in a segregated city and suburb

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographics of Cascades and Great Park (2010).

	Cascades		Queens County	Great Park		Nassau County
White (NH)	5,314	3.6%	28.6%	26,284	35.0%	67.0%
Black (NH)	105,198	71.1%	18%	21,794	29.0%	10.5%
Asian (NH)	14,363	9.7%	22.9%	2,974	4.0%	7.4%
Hispanic/Latinx	16,072	10.9%	27.0%	22,038	29.3%	13.7%
Foreign-Born	63,191	42.7%	48.1%	23,082	30.7%	20.7%
Below Poverty Level	7,646	7.1%	12.6%	2,508	6.7%	9.2%
Median Household Income		$68,890	$55, 291		$80,639	$93,613
Black		$71,397	$56,453		$90,240	$78,092
White		$58,718	$55,813		$80,800	96,930
Owner Occupied	31,894	72.3%	45.5%	18,572	75.5%	82.1%

Source: ACS 2010–5 year estimates

Table 2. School choices: public neighborhood school versus non-neighborhood school choices.

	Cascades	%	Great Park	%	All	%
Neighborhood Public School	15	50	20	66	35	58
Outside Public School (Magnet/Charter School)	6	20	3	10	9	15
Private/Catholic School	9	30	7	24	16	27
Total	30		30		60