Ethnic segregation in England’s schools

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregationin England’s schools are high, with considerable variation both across LEAsand across different minority ethnic groups. By combining the two indices weare able to identify areas of particular concern as scoring highly on both.Finally, we show that ethnic segregation is only weakly related to incomesegregation.[...]