In the 2016-2017 school year, 48% of all public school students in the U.S. were white. But a typical white student attends a school with a higher proportion of white students. The same pattern is true for black and Latino students.
Racial makeup of all U.S. schools
White
48.4%
Latino
26.3%
Black
15.2%
Asian
5.5%
Multiracial
3.6%
American Indian
1.0%
The average __ student attends a school that is __% their own race