Table 5
Distribution Of Black And Hispanic a/
Public School Students
New York State
2007-08
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Black (Not Hispanic Origin) |
Hispanic a/ |
Black and Hispanic a/ |
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Location |
Number of Black Students K-12 |
Percent of State's Black Students |
Students K-12 |
Percent of State's Hispanic Students |
Number of Black and Hispanic Students K-12 |
Percent of State's Black and Hispanic Students |
"Big Five" Cities Buffalo New York Rochester Syracuse Yonkers Total "Big Five" Rest of State TOTAL STATE |
19,198 307,969 21,031 10,754 6,064 365,016 141,688 506,704 |
3.8% 60.7 4.2 2.1 1.2 72.0 28.0 100.0% |
5,057 384,211 6,780 2,105 11,252 409,405 149,273 558,678 |
0.9% 68.8 1.2 0.4 2.0 73.3 26.7 100.0% |
24,255 692,180 27,811 12,859 17,316 774,421 290,961 1,065,382 |
2.3% 65.0 2.6 1.2 1.6 72.7 27.3 100.0% |
a/ "Hispanic" includes Mexican, Central American, South American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Latin American and other Spanish-speaking origin.
This table summarizes data on black and Hispanic students enrolled in public schools during the 2007-08 school year. Although 39.7 percent of the State's public school students were black or Hispanic (see Table 4), these students were not equally distributed among the school districts. New York City enrolled 65.0 percent of the total number of these two minority groups; the "Big Five", collectively, enrolled 72.7 percent.