A tale of two Seattle schools

For North Seattle’s West Woodland Elementary School and the Central Area’s Bailey Gatzert Elementary, demographic shifts due to integration were particularly strong. See how these schools shifted as Seattle Public Schools (SPS) strengthened and weakened its focus on integration.

Key events
1 1978: Beginning of mandatory integration across all Seattle schools
2 1989: SPS scales back mandatory busing program
3 1998: End of mandatory busing for racial integration
4 2000: Parents sue over racial tiebreaker
5 2002: Federal court injunction halts racial tiebreaker
6 2007: U.S. Supreme Court rules against SPS in tiebreaker case

Percentage of students of color enrolled

Chart: Lauren Flannery / The Seattle Times Source: Seattle Times reporting, Seattle Public Schools, and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction