I have looked at our school data relative to our area and vs. New York State. Our district is majority white (86%), a figure which has held steady for the last 10 years. However, the percentage of "economically disadvantaged" students is rising, up to 21% in 2020-21. There is no hiding from the issues anymore, and while programs like Connected Community Schools are working to address inequities there is much more to do. Also, there is a challenge in that we have so few Black students that they sometimes do not appear on state reports as a category - it is difficult to evaluate how students are doing and whether programs are having an impact when there may be so much variability from year to year. When you only have a handful of students from a particular group, it makes having individual conversations much more important than relying on data points.
