https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:11:46 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851350 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:37:03 +0000 Marfi 1851350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not very diverse, and our current town is less diverse than the town I grew up in. It feels like the further away from Cleveland the suburb is, the less diverse it is. My high school was:<br /> Asian 113 (5%)<br /> Black 54 (2.17%)<br /> Hispanic 35 (1.41%)<br /> Native American 1 (0.04%)<br /> White 2215 (89.10%) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851328 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:06:00 +0000 Mae 1851328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was one asian girl and one half asian guy. And one Jewish kid. That's it (class of 200). The year I graduated a (a! one! lol) black family moved into the school district but neither of the two kids were in my grade. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851274 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:44:29 +0000 Pepper 1851274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to four different elementary schools. My first one was very diverse, it was in the suburbs of DC. Second one was farther away from DC; it wasn't as diverse. Moved to PA, and had very little diversity in the last two elementary schools, middle school and high school. I graduated with 600+ kids, and I think less than 25 weren't Caucasian. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851217 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:09:54 +0000 Corduroy 1851217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Elementary and middle were very diverse. I went to a Catholic high school. It was racially diverse but not very culturally diverse in that everyone was Christian and of similar economic backgrounds. </p> <p>My college was a public school in CA but was ridiculously white. It was shocking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851192 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:32:11 +0000 Greentea 1851192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Growing up our schools were not very diverse, but LO's school will be diverse and hopefully international. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1851160 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:47:26 +0000 kakimochi 1851160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>grew up in hawaii...85% asian, 15% white </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1849243 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:10:49 +0000 namaste 1849243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in Atlanta so I would go to a mix of predominantly black or white schools in elementary school. By the end of elementary-high school, it was pretty much 40% black, 40% white, and 20% Asian/Hispanic. I went to private schools though so that may have had a lot to do with it. I'm sure if I was in my public school district, it would have been 99% black. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1849137 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:49:09 +0000 MrsKoala 1849137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Grew up in the suburbs in New England. Not very diverse at all, sadly. It took a long time for me to understand other cultures and my own privilege because I wasn't exposed to much difference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1849133 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:48:11 +0000 bhbee 1849133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my HS says 68% white. it was probably higher when I was there - we had a few African American kids and then a small group of Iraqi immigrants. </p> <p>LO's future elem. school is 44% white and 37% Hispanic, with a mix among the rest. Not sure we will still be here then, and I see pros/cons of moving out to less diverse suburbs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up/page/2#post-1849129 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:46:36 +0000 MrsTiz 1849129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours was pretty diverse, we're right next to a military base so we have all kinds of people. 56% of my HS was "minority enrollment" according to the county website.</p> <p> American Indian-1%<br /> Asian-3%<br /> Hispanic -10%<br /> Black-32%<br /> White-44% </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849124 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:44:13 +0000 lamariniere 1849124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in the Midwest, so not very diverse. I think it was probably 10% black, 2% other and the rest white. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849121 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:42:32 +0000 travelgirl1 1849121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither of my schools were diverse at all. Primary school was entirely white Christians. High school, I remember there being one black guy. Things have changed in that region now, as there was a large influx of Polish about ten years ago. College and university were about the same.</p> <p>Depending where LO goes to school, she will gave a very different experience. If she goes to school in Canada it will be very diverse. If it's in England it will be where DH grew up rather than where I did, and that region is more diverse but nothing like Toronto. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849097 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:28:59 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1849097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm from California, so diversity was the norm. I'm working much harder to get the same experience for my kids in Utah. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849089 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:26:09 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1849089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um. There were 320 of us. </p> <p>2 Hispanic<br /> 1 Asian<br /> 3 African American</p> <p>It was white people land.</p> <p>DD's school will be very diverse. I'm glad that she'll have a different experience than I did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849065 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:15:32 +0000 Grace 1849065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not diverse at all. I remember one Black and kid and maybe 5% Native kids. I thought it was so cool when I went to university in the city. I felt like I was in such a cosmopolitan place in comparison. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849059 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:12:55 +0000 looch 1849059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My university was very undiverse, compared to the diversity in my elementary, middle and high schools. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849009 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:51:26 +0000 lemondrop 1849009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sort of diverse? We had some cultures that most don't. </p> <p>Roughly:<br /> 40% White<br /> 30% Hispanic<br /> 25% American Indian (Apache majority, we have a nearby reservation)<br /> 5% Black, Asian, other </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1849005 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:47:20 +0000 tysonja 1849005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>elementary and high school, medium diversity,<br /> university and graduate school, high diversity,</p> <p>where we live now: high diversity.</p> <p>I'm a minority myself and I think living in pretty diverse communities growing up made it so I've never felt different or experienced any real racism. so happy to be able to say that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848991 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:39:46 +0000 macintosh 1848991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We moved around a lot when I was in school, but we always lived in small towns or burbs that were mostly Caucasian. We did live in a college town for a few years, and that was the most diverse school by far. The HS I ended up in was probably 95% white.</p> <p>My college (state school in Ohio) was a little more diverse, but not much. I didn't get real diversity until I moved to Cleveland as an adult, then later to Chicago. Here, I'm the minority at my company!</p> <p>My new neighborhood in the burbs is diverse, but the high schools have a bad reputation. I'm hoping my future kids can get a good education in elementary here and get into the (very diverse) magnet school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848987 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:38:19 +0000 mediagirl 1848987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Let's just say, as a Freshman in a college in NC, the diversity was shock to my otherwise not diverse system. :) It was a VERY good experience for me, to say the least. I know my daughter will be in school with a diverse crowd and I'm happy about that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848963 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:26:25 +0000 spaniellove 1848963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very diverse but few black students. I didn't realize until I was older that almost a majority of my elementary school classmates were multiracial! I think that was the norm where I lived, and no one made a big deal out of being multi/biracial. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848954 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:21:13 +0000 jhd 1848954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My schools growing up were quite diverse. LO's school experience might not be quite as diverse, but there will be at least some diversity. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848941 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:17:28 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1848941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Elementary school was primarily white- Jewish and Christian. . My specific grade always had 60-65 students. I was one of 5 black kids. There were 4 biracial lids (black &amp; white). There was an Indian boy, two full or part Spaniard Spanish boys, a Viatnamese girl that was adopted by a white family, and there were maybe 2-3 other ethnic looking white kids ie Greek or Middle Eastern. For all intents and purposes these kids were white. Every once in a while we would have an African kid from an embassy attend our school. From a socio-economic angle we didn't get a classmate with a young, single mother until our last year. We had so many questions for her. </p> <p>My junior high and high school was more diverse in part because of school bussing. </p> <p>The HS I graduated from was more like my elementary school- white Christian and instead of Jewish kids there were white Hispanics. In the classes I took I was usually 1 of two or three black kids in the class. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848934 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:15:04 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1848934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't say very diverse but we weren't dominated by one specific race. I think I would say we had a pretty even 3 way split between Hispanic, African American &amp; Caucasian. There were very dew other races. We had a family of Pacific Islanders &amp; maybe a few Asian but it was mostly just the previously mentioned 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848930 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:13:35 +0000 BKCaribBaby 1848930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My elementary school was actually not diverse at all. It was 95% Black! Amongst the Black students, it was a mix of ethnicities with a mix of African-American, Caribbean, and small West African contingents. </p> <p>My middle/high school (same place) was a little more diverse, but it was predominantly white, about 85% I think. It's now about 70%. </p> <p>I grew up in NYC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848913 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:07:01 +0000 BlueWolverine 1848913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whitey. Small town, rural. There was one Hispanic family and two black families. No Asian families (or anything else, for that matter). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848891 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:57:45 +0000 LuLu Mom 1848891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in small town, Nebraska, there was absolutely no diversity in our school system (only one elementary school and high school for the town.) It was 99.5% white, at least 85% of which were Christians. I loved going to college and meeting people of different races, backgrounds, ect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848874 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:52:27 +0000 Caly 1848874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Almost non-existant. There were mostly white students sprinkled with a few Asians in my class. A couple years behind me was the only black student I can recall and he was adopted by a white family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848871 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:51:14 +0000 ballerinabee 1848871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to Montessori through 5th grade, and that was wonderfully diverse. My public MS &amp; HS were ridiculously WASPy (and tiny - we had ~400 kids in our whole HS). We had 1 black family (k-12, but none in my graduating class), 1 mixed race student (a year or two behind me), a handful of asian kids (though none in my graduating class), and my grade had I think 1.5 Jewish kids. </p> <p>My LO will go to Montessori probably through elementary school, and the public schools where we live now are pretty diverse. My brothers went to HS here and loved the diversity and opportunities that they wouldn't have had in our old hometown. It's a cute place, but we call it a "bubble" for a reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-diverse-were-your-schools-excluding-college-growing-up#post-1848861 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:47:57 +0000 loveisstrange 1848861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very diverse. Mostly white and black but also lots of Mexican, Bosnian and Vietnamese students too. </p>