Table 5
Distribution Of Black And Hispanic a/
Public School Students
New York State
2008-09
|
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 |
18,581 297,862 20,798 10,702 5,907 353,850 140,568 494,418 |
3.8% 60.2 4.2 2.2 1.2 71.6 28.4 100.0% |
4,871 382,444 6,969 2,160 11,572 408,016 154,993 563,009 |
0.9% 67.9 1.2 0.4 2.1 72.5 27.5 100.0% |
23,452 680,306 27,767 12,862 17,479 761,866 295,561 1,057,427 |
2.2% 64.3 2.6 1.2 1.7 72.0 28.0 100.0% |
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 2008-09 school year. Although 39.8 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 64.3 percent of the total number of these two minority groups; the "Big Five", collectively, enrolled 72.0 percent.