Attendance zone segregation

Date and country of first publication

2021
United States

Definition

Attendance zone segregation refers to the practice of intentionally or unintentionally creating attendance zones for schools that result in the segregation of students based on their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. This can occur when attendance boundaries are drawn to concentrate students from low-income neighborhoods or racial minority groups in certain schools, while students from wealthier or predominantly white neighborhoods attend other schools. The result is a perpetuation of educational inequities and unequal access to resources and opportunities. Attendance zone segregation can contribute to the achievement gap and exacerbate social and economic disparities in society.

Related segregation forms

Attendance zone segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

school segregation, residential segregation, income segregation, educational segregation

This visualization is based on the study The Multidisciplinary Landscape of Segregation Research.

For the complete network of interrelated segregation forms, please refer to:

• First year of publication

• Louvain clusters

• Betweenness centrality

• Disciplines in which segregation forms first emerged (Scopus database).

Attendance zone segregation appears in the following literature

Taylor K., Frankenberg E. (2021). Student Assignment Policies and Racial and Income Segregation of Schools, School Attendance Zones, and Neighborhoods. Educational Administration Quarterly, 57(5), 747-775. SAGE Publications Inc..https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X211024720