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ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY
FALL 1972 - FALL 2008

Empty Cell
City
East
Harbor
Mission
Pierce
South-
west
Trade-Tech
Valley
West
District
Percent Asian
1972

11.6

8.0

8.3

---

0.7

0.4

5.4

1.5

4.0

5.5

5,591

1980

20.7

14.2

16.5

3.5

6.8

0.5

8.3

8.4

8.3

11.1

14,447
1990
24.8
21.7
16.4
5.9
14.9
1.2
14.4
13.8
10.4
15.5
17,186
2000
18.1
16.1
16.7
6.0
20.2
1.1
9.4
13.2
8.3
13.7
15,888
2005
20.7
19.0
19.4
7.7
19.3
1.7
8.4
13.0
10.1
14.9
17,064
2006
20.9
19.1
19.5
7.1
18.6
2.1
8.4
12.1
9.7
14.7
16,913
2007
21.8
20.1
20.1
6.6
18.5
2.0
8.3
11.5
9.7
14.9
18,176
2008
22.9
19.5
20.0
6.3
17.3
1.9
7.4
11.8
9.4
14.4
19,468
Percent Black
1972

32.0

5.1

10.5

---

0.9

89.5

39.4

3.0

33.5

19.7

20,003
1980

35.2

4.9

16.1

11.2

3.9

98.2

52.6

6.8

50.0

27.1

33,945
1990
15.3
3.1
14.8
7.0
3.7
71.7
31.8
7.2
50.1
18.1
19,917
2000
12.4
2.2
14.4
6.3
6.0
78.0
28.4
7.4
52.5
17.3
18,334
2005
12.7
2.4
15.0
5.2
6.7
76.8
30.4
6.9
45.3
16.8
18,757
2006
12.1
2.3
15.3
4.9
7.1
75.7
31.5
6.8
44.6
16.7
18,522
2007
11.2
1.9
16.2
5.4
6.6
70.7
31.3
6.6
45.6
15.9
19,035
2008
11.6
1.9
14.9
5.0
6.8
70.4
30.1
6.6
43.4
16.0
21,235
Percent Hispanic
1972
14.5
52.3
13.8
---
3.2
0.8
18.1
7.2
4.1
16.1
16,294
1980
19.7
67.5
18.7
42.1
7.1
0.5
24.4
13.3
6.2
22.3
28,174
1990
38.3
68.9
26.5
51.5
12.0
25.3
40.6
22.9
12.5
32.6
35,972
2000
44.4
78.5
42.4
70.2
23.3
19.4
53.7
40.0
23.0
46.0
52,262
2005
39.6
75.7
44.3
71.0
29.2
19.6
53.8
40.0
26.7
46.9
53,160
2006
40.5
75.6
45.1
74.1
30.8
20.6
51.7
41.3
28.0
47.4
54,168
2007
41.0
75.1
43.6
74.9
32.1
25.1
53.2
42.9
26.9
48.3
58,706
2008
41.5
75.8
45.3
76.5
33.2
25.3
55.3
43.5
30.3
49.7
66,439
Percent White
1972
38.5
32.7
64.1
---
94.0
6.1
33.7
86.1
56.1
56.2
57,037
1980
21.3
11.5
45.5
39.8
78.5
0.3
12.0
66.9
32.6
36.5
51,788
1990
19.2
5.0
40.6
33.8
66.0
1.1
11.3
53.2
24.1
31.4
35,036
2000
22.6
2.4
24.2
15.3
45.0
0.8
7.3
35.2
13.0
20.4
22,360
2005
24.6
2.2
19.4
13.9
39.2
0.9
6.3
34.8
14.9
18.7
21,750
2006
24.1
2.2
18.1
11.9
38.2
0.7
6.9
34.3
14.9
18.5
21,535
2007
23.2
2.1
18.0
10.9
37.3
1.0
5.8
33.4
14.6
18.0
22,048
2008
21.4
2.0
17.8
9.9
37.2
1.0
5.7
33.0
13.7
17.1
23,517


For complete trends and greater detail, see the Excel spreadsheet version of this file

Last Update: 11/07/2008


Data on student ethnicity have been obtained from responses to a multiple-choice question on the student application. Until 1990-91 the choices were the four listed on this table: Asian, Black, Hispanic and White, along with Other. Beginning in Fall 1990, a new application listed 18 ethnic categories. The data obtained from the new or returning students filling out this application have been consolidated into the four "old" categories listed on this table. Thus the Asian group includes students identifying themselves as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Laotian, Cambodian, Indian Subcontinent, Pacific Islander, and Other Asian. Blacks would check only "Black, African-American", while Hispanic would include Mexican/Chicano, Central or South American, and Other Hispanic. White students would pick "Caucasian, White", while students choosing American Indian, Alaska Native, or Other Non-white, would be placed in the "Other" category. Space does not permit the inclusion in the table of this category, which accounted for less than 3% of the total District student population in Fall 2002.

Those who explicitly "Decline to State" their ethnicity are ommitted from the tallies and calculations of percentage.