Both of my elementary and high schools were really diverse, but maybe that was a product of living in the suburbs. There wasn't one ethnicity/race that dominated the schools, though there were definitely a healthy Asian/South Asian population and almost all Caucasians were Jewish.
The demographics of my new city/neighbourhood are quite different, predominantly Caucasian.
What was your experience, and what will your LO(s)' experience(s) be like?
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
Junior high and high school were extremely diverse, which I loved. It had a big impact on me, and I'd love for our kids to experience the same!
watermelon / 14206 posts
Not at all diverse. I grew up in a very white rural area of WNY. I did move to SC before my junior year of high school, and it was a bit more diverse.
pomelo / 5791 posts
Our school/neighborhood is predominantly Caucasian as well. I think 96% last time I checked. We're living one town away from where we grew up, so it was pretty much the same for us too.
nectarine / 2641 posts
My schools were almost entirely white. There were a few native students and two black students. Both named Chris.
College was much more diverse. I returned to the town I grew up in when I got married, but it is getting slightly more diverse. I want to make a conscious effort to make sure my son has a better understanding of racial diversity than I did. I'm pretty sure I said cringe-worthy things when I got to college.
pomelo / 5628 posts
Large diverse public schools. My high school was like 30% white, 30% Filipino, 30% other Asian, and 10% Black and Hispanic. I'm struggling with this right now thinking about the future for LO. I want diversity, but I also want to live in a nice area and most of them are much less diverse.
squash / 13208 posts
Not much diversity growing up and even less where we live now
Yikes - I just googled my DS's elementary school and found this - so yeah, NO diversity
American Indian 1 - 0.1%
Black 10 - 1.3%
Asian 25 - 3.4%
Hispanic 14 - 1.9%
White 695 - 93.3%
pineapple / 12802 posts
I don't remember my elementary school demographic very well.
My middle school was mainly Caucasian, it was a very small school (300 kids from k - 9) and in a predominantly Caucasian neighbourhood.
My highschool was incredibly diverse. I think were/are about 40 (ETA: 40 may be wrong, haha, but I know there were a LOT!) different ethnicities there. A large population of Hispanic & Asian backgrounds.
The community we live in now is a mix of Caucasian & Filipino with some other ethnicities mixed in.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
My high school was more diverse than the school in the neighborhood we live in now.
Mine:
61% Black
34% White
2% Hispanic
2% Multiracial
1% Asian
Current Neighborhood High School
76% White
13% Hispanic
5% Asian
3% Black
3% Multiracial
honeydew / 7303 posts
Not diverse at all!! I hope to move to a more diverse area once my kids start school. I would love to move now but I have a work commitment so I can't!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Not diverse at all. I grew up in a very white white white town. I remember in middle school, there was literally only one Black student and I'm pretty sure everyone else was white. And then in high school, there might have been two Black students. I don't recall any other ethnicities/races.
Our children will be definitely experience more diversity. Even in his daycare, there's a wider range of ethnicities.
persimmon / 1343 posts
Mine was suuuper diverse in high-school and middle school, right outside an army base. But in elementary school there wasn't much diversity, it was a small school in a small white town. My daughter is most likely going to be homeschooled but we love in a very diverse area/neighborhood.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
My elementary school was not that diverse but everything after that was.
I think our LO's experiences will be similar.
honeydew / 7589 posts
Montessori pre-k was very diverse, it was right outside our military base and I remember that my two best friends there were black and East Indian.
After that I was homeschooled.
eggplant / 11824 posts
My first elementary school was a magnet school that was extremely diverse. My second one (2nd - 5th grade) was more near the 'burbs and was much less diverse. My middle school was an inner-city (Seattle) school, where whites were a minority. Very diverse, great school.
Then we moved to a small town in Maine for my high school - needless to say....basically no diversity.
In LO's daycare there is some diversity; it's predominantly white, but there are 2 kids in her class who are biracial, and I do see a fair number of Asian-American kids in the other classes.
Our town is overwhelmingly white, so her schools unfortunately won't be very diverse.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Pretty diverse, with a strong Asian representation.
My high school:
Asian 64%
Hispanic 17%
White 11%
Black 3%
Two or more races 1%
LO's future high school:
Asian 43%
White 29%
Hispanic 14%
Two or more races 4%
Black 3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 0%
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
Lots of diversity and I think there will be even more when my kids are in school.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Middle school and HS were very diverse. HS had a strong Asian/Indian representation.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Well I lived in Asia for elementary/middle school, not diverse at all haha. Then I moved to a super Jewish neighborhood in NY so my middle/high school experience there is not very diverse either. We had an international students club and those like 10~ people were pretty much the diversity.
I went to a huge urban college in Boston so diversity is def a lot higher there. But mostly Asians though.
pineapple / 12526 posts
Very diverse. Mostly white and black but also lots of Mexican, Bosnian and Vietnamese students too.
apricot / 452 posts
I went to Montessori through 5th grade, and that was wonderfully diverse. My public MS & 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.
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.
nectarine / 2765 posts
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.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
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.
pear / 1510 posts
Whitey. Small town, rural. There was one Hispanic family and two black families. No Asian families (or anything else, for that matter).
pear / 1672 posts
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.
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%.
I grew up in NYC.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
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 & Caucasian. There were very dew other races. We had a family of Pacific Islanders & maybe a few Asian but it was mostly just the previously mentioned 3.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
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 & 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.
My junior high and high school was more diverse in part because of school bussing.
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.
coconut / 8079 posts
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.
honeydew / 7916 posts
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.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
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.
pear / 1750 posts
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.
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!
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.
nectarine / 2217 posts
elementary and high school, medium diversity,
university and graduate school, high diversity,
where we live now: high diversity.
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!
bananas / 9118 posts
Sort of diverse? We had some cultures that most don't.
Roughly:
40% White
30% Hispanic
25% American Indian (Apache majority, we have a nearby reservation)
5% Black, Asian, other
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
My university was very undiverse, compared to the diversity in my elementary, middle and high schools.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
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.
pineapple / 12793 posts
Um. There were 320 of us.
2 Hispanic
1 Asian
3 African American
It was white people land.
DD's school will be very diverse. I'm glad that she'll have a different experience than I did.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
I'm from California, so diversity was the norm. I'm working much harder to get the same experience for my kids in Utah.
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
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.
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.
pineapple / 12566 posts
I grew up in the Midwest, so not very diverse. I think it was probably 10% black, 2% other and the rest white.
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