- A typical low-income student is in a school with about 62 percent non-low-income students in the average “no magnet school choice” (NoCHC) district, but in a school with about 45 percent non-low-income students in the average district with “much magnet school choice” (MuchCHC).
- In the nonmagnet districts, 16.6 percent of children aged 5-1 7 are classified as living in poverty, compared to about 23 percent in the magnet districts.
- The size of a district and the demographic characteristics of the community show a clear and consistent pattern of associations with economic segregation among schools.
- Private school enrollment has small effects in two of the models.
- Whether the district is a nonmagnet or a magnet district does not make an additional difference after these other variables are accounted for.
- Neighborhood economic stratification is reproduced in the schools.
- After other variables are controlled, more children in poverty in the community means more children in poverty in the community’s school district and less exposure of poor children to children who are not poor.