American schools became increasingly more segregated in the 1990s, a rise that a researcher attributes to white flight to suburban areas, federal courts’ ending the strong desegregation plans of the 1960s, and the fact that Hispanic students were not included in desegregation efforts.
| 50-100% Minority Blacks Latinos |
90-100% Minority | |||
| 1968-69 | 76.6 | 54.8 | 64.3 | 23.1 |
| 1972-73 | 63.6 | 56.6 | 38.7 | 23.3 |
| 1980-81 | 62.9 | 68.1 | 33.2 | 28.8 |
| 1986-87 | 63.3 | 71.5 | 32.5 | 32.2 |
| 1991-92 | 66.0 | 73.4 | 33.9 | 34.0 |
| 1994-95 | 67.1 | 74.0 | 33.6 | 34.8 |
| 1996-97 | 68.8 | 74.8 | 35.0 | 35.4 |
| 1998-99 | 70.2 | 75.6 | 36.5 | 36.6 |
SOURCE: Harvard Civil Rights Project, “Schools More Separated: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation,” 2001.
