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DISTRICT CONTEXT
The EPE Research Center analyzed key features of the school systems attended by the typical Latino student and compared those results with the district context for the typical white student. Relative to whites, Latinos are much more likely to attend large districts in urban environments that are characterized by high levels of poverty and segregation.

GRADUATION IN THE 50 LARGEST DISTRICTS
Among the nation's largest public school systems, a group of perennially strong performers tops the rankings for the class of 2009. Graduation rates exceed 80 percent in Maryland's Montgomery and Baltimore counties, as well as Fairfax County, Va., and Jefferson County, Colo.
GRADUATION RATE Class of 2009 87.6% 85.5 85.5 81.2 78.3 78.1 77.8 75.4 75.1 75.0 74.6 74.5* 74.3 74.1 74.0 73.3 72.6 72.2 70.6 69.4 69.2 69.2 68.7 67.5 66.6 66.1 65.1 65.0 63.6 62.4 62.0 61.7 61.6 61.2 60.5 60.1 57.1 56.9 56.8 56.1 55.5 55.2 55.1 52.9 52.6 52.4 50.2 48.3 45.8 42.4
* Class of 2008

LATINO
25,047 46% 19% 55% 62 points 77% 73 points $9,992
District enrollment
(median)

WHITE
6,600 19% 5% 36% 42 points 18% 31 points $10,626

Urban English-language learners Free or reducedprice lunch Socioeconomic segregation
(0-100 pts.)

DISTRICT (size rank) Montgomery County, Md. (16) Fairfax County, Va. (12) Jefferson County, Colo. (35) Baltimore County, Md. (25) Broward County, Fla. (6) Anne Arundel County, Md. (46) Cypress-Fairbanks, Texas (26) Palm Beach County, Fla. (11) Virginia Beach, Va. (49) Northside, Texas (32) Lee County, Fla. (40) Jordan, Utah (39) Prince William County, Va. (45) Wake County, N.C. (17) Guilford County, N.C. (48) Fulton County, Ga. (33) Orange County, Fla. (10) New York City (1) Hillsborough County, Fla. (8) Brevard County, Fla. (47) Hawaii (statewide district) (9) Pinellas County, Fla. (24) Long Beach, Calif. (34) Cobb County, Ga. (23) Miami-Dade County, Fla. (4)

Majority-minority enrollment Racial segregation
(0-100 pts.)

Per-pupil expenditures

REGIONAL PATTERNS
For white students and the U.S. population as a whole, high school graduation rates are highest in the Northeast, the region where the nation’s largest racial and ethnic gaps are generally found. Latinos, by contrast, graduate at the highest rates in the South, where they lag behind their white peers by 10 percentage points.

MIDWEST
Latino: 59% White: 78%

NORTHEAST
Latino: 61% White: 85%

Memphis, Tenn. (22) Polk County, Fla. (31) Prince George's County, Md. (20) Austin, Texas (37) Houston (7) Greenville, S.C. (50) San Diego (19) Fort Worth, Texas (41) Duval County, Fla. (21) Nashville-Davidson County, Tenn. (43) Gwinnett County, Ga. (15) Clark County, Nev. (5)

WEST
Latino: 62% White: 74%

Dallas (14) Fresno, Calif. (42) Chicago (3) Dekalb County, Ga. (27) Philadelphia (13) Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C. (18)

SOUTH
Latino: 66% White: 76%

Albuquerque, N.M. (30) Milwaukee (36) Denver (44) Baltimore (38) Jefferson County, Ky. (28) Los Angeles (2)

NOTE: Regions as deﬁned by U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: EPE Research Center, 2012

Detroit (29)

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