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Although the percentage of minority students at each of Cambridge's 13 elementary schools is fairly constant, the mixture of individual races--Asian, Black, Hispanic or Native American--varies widely from school to school.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Education's October 1990 statistics, the most recent available, while Graham and Parks School is 44.0 percent Black it is only 3.4 percent Asian and 4.9 percent Hispanic. But at the Peabody School the enrollment is 13.7 percent Asian, but only 7.3. percent Hispanic...
"Over time we've seen an increase in Hispanic and Asian immigration significant enough to warrant a third racial category," he says.
The presence of the Spanish bilingual programat the Longfellow School contributes to the factthat 35.5 percent of its students are Hispanic,which is considerably higher than the average of14.2 percent among all Cambridge elementary-schoolstudents.
However, in order to maintain a balance betweenwhite and non-white students, this concentrationof Hispanic students necessarily limits thenumbers of other minorities in the school.Consequently, the percentage of Black students,15.1 percent, at the Longfellow School is lessthan half of the elementary-school average of 30.6percent.