School segregation in multi-ethnic England

Simon Burgess (), Ron Johnston and Deborah Wilson

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation from The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: Aspects of both educational development and multi-cultural inter-relationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multi-ethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this paper, we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explore its nature and spatial variation. We find substantial segregation on ethnic criteria in some places. Nevertheless, over the country as a whole, attendance at substantially mono-ethnic schools is not the norm for members of the non-white groups (though it is for whites in many areas). Half of all non-white secondary students in England attended schools where more than 75 per cent of the total enrolment comprised whites.

Keywords: ethnicity; segregation; schools; spatial concentration; England (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2003-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-geo, nep-lab and nep-ure
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