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Personal And Social Consequences: Demographics Of Urban School District

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Personal and Social Consequences A lack of education not only leads to personal catastrophe, it also leads to social and economic devastation. One a personal level, the repeat occurrences of generational educational failure overtime leads to poor quality of life, creates an inability to obtain good paying employment, which leads to poverty, which leads to the lack of mobility. On a social and economic level, concentrations of uneducated individuals with the inability of upward mobility, result is a community full of crime, drug use, poverty and unemployment, which leads to a poor tax base to support programs that provide assistance to low-income residents and students.
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School demographics include student enrollment, median household income, state per pupil spending and district per pupil spending. Seattle, Washington. The 2016 enrollment for the Seattle school district was 54,976 with an attendance rate of 90.7% (“About Our District,” n.d.). The district’s graduation rate was 76.9% and the drop-out rate was 11.3%. 46% of Seattle’s school district was White, 16% Black, 15% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial and 1% was a combination of Native American and Pacific Islander (“Data Profile Outcomes,” n.d.). 24.6% of enrolled students were non-English speaking (“About Our District,” n.d.). According to the latest figures in 2015, the median household income in Seattle was $75,331, which was significantly higher than both the national average ($55,775) and Cleveland ($51,049) (“US Household Income,” n.d.). 33.8% of total enrolled students qualified for free or reduced lunch (“About Our District,” …show more content…

6% Federal, 47% Local Government and 46% State funded. The total expenditures per student was $13,685, with 60% focused towards instruction, 18% for operations/food service and other, 12% for administration and 11% for student/staff support (“Search for Public,” n.d.). Cleveland, Ohio. The 2015-2016 enrollment for the Cleveland Municipal school district was 39,125 with an attendance rate of 91.2% (Facts, n.d.). The district’s graduation rate in 2015 was 69.1, which earned them an F (lowest) on the Ohio scorecard (report card, n.d.). 64.9% of the Cleveland school district was Black, 15.6% Hispanic, 15.4% White, 2.6% multiracial, 1.3% Asian or Pacific Islander and .2% Native American. 7.8% of the district requires multilingual services (Facts, n.d.). According to the latest figures in 2015, the median household income in Cleveland was $51,049, which was significantly lower than Seattle ($75,331) and also fell below the national average ($55,775). 100% of students receive free lunches. Free lunches are for all regardless of household income (Facts,

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