This is just quick update to my prior post on concentrated poverty.  I re-ran the California test score data at a school-level to compare within school black-white differences in test scores and converted all of the scores data to standard deviation units relative to (above) the non-hispanic mean by school, weighted by the number of test takers.  The pattern can be observed as early as 2nd grade and it is quite consistent for all major/mandatory tests.

 

Black vs White within school comparison

Grade 2 English

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Grade 2 Math

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If I plot all tests at once (after standardizing the scores), the plot comes out like this:

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Most individual test plots seem to follow a pretty similar pattern with respect to the underlying shape and the relationship between the intercept(s), i.e, roughly -2.8@ -2 SD, -1.2 @ 0 SD, -0.2 @ +2 SD.  The within school gap grows in schools where whites perform at a higher level(the right side) and shrinks in schools where whites perform well below average (the left side).  [The higher performing schools are almost certainly mostly higher SES schools, but perhaps I’ll plot this data once I find a good measure of school level SES for both groups later]

 

U.S. History

bw_us_history

World History

bw_world_history

Physics

bw_physics

Chemistry

bw_chemistry

Algebra II

bw_algebraII

Algebra I

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Grade 10 Science

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Grade 8 Science

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Grade 7 Math

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Grade 11 English

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Grade 7 English

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Latino vs White within school comparison

 

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lw_math_g2

 

 

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Black vs Latino within school comparison

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bl_us_history bl_world_history bl_chemistry bl_physics bl_math_g7 bl_ela_g11

Black vs Asian within school comparison

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Asian vs White within school comparison


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aw_math_g2aw_us_hist aw_world_history aw_chemistry aw_physics aw_geometry aw_algebraII aw_algebraI aw_sci_g10 aw_sci_g8 aw_sci_g5 aw_math_g7 aw_ela_g11 aw_ela_g7