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DOCUMENT RESUMEED 07c 253PS 006 468TITLE.I;:STITUTIQNPUB CATENOTEAVAILABLE FROMEERS PRICEDESCRIPTORSDesegregation - September 1972.Dade County Public Schools, Miami, Fla.Dec 72100p.; Dade County Public Schools Research Report,Volume XX, Number 2, 1972-73Dade County Public Schools, Department ofAdministrative Pesearch, Poorn 201, Linnsey HopkinsBuilding, 1410 Northeast Second Avenue, Miami,Florida 33132 (no price quoted)MF- 0.65 HC- 3.29*County School Systen.s; *Racial Integration; *SchoolIntegration; School 'Airveys; *Statistical Data;Teacher Integration*Dade County; FloridaIDENTIFIEPSABSTRACTDesegregation statistics for Dade County, Florida,abular form. A brief history of desegregation inDade County pre.c ds the data. Tables 1-7 contains the basic dataobtained in a1.rey of the entire school system and include data forboth pupils an,: mployees. Table 8 reveals the exact extent ofdesegregation Ln each school. In Table 9, the percent and number ofblack pupils 51 each school are shown with schools listed in rankorder from 10(A to 3% within each grade group. The racial and ethniccomposition of the pupil population by areas for the eight years ofdesegregation reports is shown in Table 1), while Table 11 shows thecountywide increase or decrease in each group from year to year.are provide(in(Author/XM)fI

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RESEARCH REPORT, VOLUME XX, NUMBER 2, 1972-73 - DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSC:3Dr. Edward L. Whigham, Superintendent of SchoolsL.1.1DESEGREGATION - SEPTEMBER 197200a ir1,DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE RESEARCH1410 Northeast Second AvenueMLami, Florida 33132December 1972

CONTENTSPageIntroducti-,i1History of Desegregation in Dade County1Status of Desegregation, September eTable1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.Table 10.Table 11.Summary, Distribution of Racial and Ethnic G -oups, Pupilsand Employees in the Schools, K-12 Program6Distribution of Racial and Ethnic Groups, Pupils andSchool Employees, Elementary School Centers10Distribution of Racial and Ethnic Groups, Pupils andSchool Employees, Junior High School Centers46Distribution of Racial and Ethnic Groups, lupils andSchool Employees, Senior High School Centers58Distribution of Racial and Ethnic Groups, Pupils andSchool Employees, Special School Centers64Racial Distribution of Employees - Central Administrationat Lindsey Hopkins Building, Area Offices, and Area orCountywide Services at Other Locations70Racial Distribution of Students and Employees, Adult:Education Programs73Pupil Membership and Black Ratio in Each School byAreas, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 197276Ranked Distribution of Schools by Percent of Black Pupilsin 197286Ethnic Composition of Pupil Populations by Area andCountywide, 1965 - 197294Annual Changes in Pupil Population by Race and EthnicGroup - Countywide96

DESEGREGATION IN DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHCOLSSEPTEMBER 1972IntroductionThis eighth annual study ofhe status of desegregation in the Dade County PublicSchools shows the racial and Ahnic composition of student and employee groupsthroughout the school system and has tables with selected data from prior yearsfor ease in noting changes which have occurred.This report, prepared by the Department of Administri:ive Research, contains datato assist school officials in their continuing assessment of the effectiveness ofthe desegregation plan and in making adjustments, if necessary, to achieve or maintain the balance desired.The report includes the elementary and secondary schools,adult education Ind all supporting administrative and service departments.It includes tables containing both basic data and various comparisons of pupils and certain employee groups.The classification of pupils into the several minority groups used in this reportare as required by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfarein their reports.Employees are classified similarly except for the omission ofAmerican Indian and Oriental.History of Desegregation in Dade CountyIn September 1959, Dade County became the first in Florida to desegregate its schools.(The word "desegregated" as used in this narrative refers to any mix of black andnonblack pupils regardless of numbers.)Two schools, Orchard Villa and Air BaseElementary, opened with a total enrollment of 777 including 25 black pupils.Fromthis token beginning, the Dade County Public Schools have experienced considerablechange.This year there are 150 elementary, 36 junior high, and 19 senior high

2school centers having both white and black pupils; the total membership in these205 schools on October 2, 1972 was 218,191 Including 56,208 black pupils.Thisincludes 89.5% of the 229 ementary, junior high and senior high schools, 88.0%of the black pupils and 91.1% of the white (all non-black) pupils in the regularprogram.Rapid changes in community housing patterns quickly converted Orchard Villa to anall-black school but by September 1961, without Orchard Villa, there were eightdesegregated schools.At the end of the 1962-63 school !ear, desegregation beganto accelerate and in the fall of 1963 some 42 schools had both white and blackpupils.In the first survey on desegregation made by the Administrative ResearchDepartment in October 1965, it was found that 9Z of the 208 public schools hadbeen desegregated.In these 92 schools were 15,306 or 33% of the black pupils and82,727 or 53% of the white pupils.By 1967 the number of desegregated schools hadincreased to 123 of 213 schools including, 30,466 or 56.8% of the black pupils.In the summer of 1969, after a survey of the school system by a team from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, .:,rders to speed up the desegregationprocess were received.A plan to carry ou: these orders, including some immediateaction, was challenged in court by a group of citizens.When the local court ruledagainst the School Board the case was appealed to the U. S. District Court whichordered that the plan be put into effect; the Federal court also issued speed-uporders which were more stringent than those from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare including complete desegregation of the full-time instructionalstaff in all schools by mid-year.Consequently, in February 1970 about 2,000 teach-ers were reassigId to effect a balance in each school to match the black-whiteteacher ratio it each school's respective grade level.gation of pupilE. was put into effect in September 1970.A plan for "total" desegreWhen the U. S. District

3Court failed to approve the plan in full, appeal was made to the Fifth CircuitCourt in New Orleans.In the summer of 1971 the Circuit Court ruled that the DadeCounty Public Schools constitute a unitary school system and that the plan, therefore, viz's acceptable.The court's declaration that sufficient desegregation had been achieved to earl theclassification "unitary school system" relieved the School. Board of the responsibility for additional desegregation.However, in July 1971 the Board agreed that fur-ther desegregation is desirable and that the school system should voluntarily strivefor a better racial balance of pupils throughout the district.To accompli3h thisthe Board established an office of Desegregation Planning and Implementation andappointed a competent staff.During the 1971-72 school year this group developed anew countywide desegregation plan which would have eliminated the few remaining allblack schools and all-white schools and would have required additional bussing ofpupils.The Board, however, rejected the plan and agreed to accept certain adjust-ments to maintain compliance with the court order while yet another plan would bedeveloped under different guidelines.In the summer of 1972 the Office of Desegregation Planning and Implementation became the Office of Equal Educational Opportunity.Status of Desegregation, September 1972Although the reports on desegregation in the Dade County Public Schools have includedpupils and employees in all programs and departments of the school system, emphasishas been on pupils in the regular day schools since the primary purpose of the studies has been to determine the extent of racial "mix" between black and non-blackpupils in the K-12 program.Consequently, all non-black pupils as well as employedpersonnel have been treated as one classification except where minority groups ofpupils (American Indian, Oriental, and Spanish surnamed) were shown separately as

reported to the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.Atthe request of the Office of Equal Educational Opportunity, this report shows thenunber of Spanish surnamed personnel in all classifications also.Throughout this report combination schools are classified by predominate grade level.Only full-time instructional personnel were included in the report.S,Irria teacherswork in more than one school although they are full-time personnel; these itinerantteachers were reported with area office instructional personnel in6.Employeedata for non-instructional personnel, however, include part-time as well as fulltime employees.Tables 1-7 are a tabulation of the basic data obtained in a survey of the entireschool system and include data for both pupils and employees.Tables 2, 3, 4 and 5,cover the elementary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and specialcenters, respectively.Table 1 contains a summary of pupils and both in tructionaland non - instructional personnel in the schools.bership as of October 2, 1972 was 241,797a.This table reveals that total mem-Of this number 63,893 (26.4%) i.eceblack and 60,283 (24.9%) were Spanish surnamed pupils; an additional 236 AmtricanIndian and 598 Oriental pupils made 125,010 pupils in these four minority grk 'psor 51.7% of the total membership.Table 6 covers central adminitration, areaoffices, and countywide services, while Table 7 covers the adult e ucation program.In Tables 2-5, in addition to a breakdown of the numbers of pupil: and teachers intoselectee minority groups, percents are shown.For other employed personnel, (and inTables 6 and 7) only the count of black, Spanish surnamed and other employees ateach location was tabulated.Analysis of the basic data recorded in Tables 1-5 resulted not only in the percentsa198 exceptional children in piblic and private schools and agencies not included.

5shown but also in several comparisons and special listings which are included inTables 8-11.Table 8 reveals the exact extent of desegregation in each school.In this tablethe schools are listed by area as in Tables 1-5 showing total membership and percent which are black with matching data from 1969, 1970 and 1971 for comparison.In Table 9 the percent and number of black pupils in each school is shown withschools listed in rank order from 100% to 0% within each grade group.This tablereveals that only seven elementary schools, and one junior high school are still100% black while only 13 elementary schools, two junior high schools, and onesenior high school have no black pupils.However, a large number of elementaryschools (51) which have both black and white pupils are less than 5% black.The racial and ethnic composition of the pupil population by areas for the eightyears of these desegregation reports beginning in 1965 is shown in Table 10 whileTable 11 shows the countywide increase or decrease in each group from year to year.co