Pike Road High School graduates its first senior class this school year, and leaders of this sprawling, semi-rural suburb of Alabama's capital city extol the young community's focus on education as one of its defining elements. "We are extremely proud of where we are," said Pike Road
1 / 3School Districts SegregationPike Road schools Superintendent Chuck Ledbetter speaks as he surveys the lunchroom at Pike Road High School in Pike Road, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation, according to a new study published Wednesday in AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association. PIKE ROAD, Ala.
"It can help draw boundaries around white spaces," said Erica Frankenberg, a Penn State University professor who is one of three authors of the study, published Wednesday in AERA Open , a journal of the American Educational Research Association. In Pike Road, just over half of students were white last year, while about 30% were African American. The remainder were Asian, Hispanic or multiracial. That's a higher share of black students than other suburban districts around Montgomery seen as alternatives to Pike Road. The system's leaders point to that diversity, which roughly mirrors schools statewide across Alabama, to argue they're not a white-flight suburb.
"Montgomery Public Schools needs some intervention and we can't tell whether it's getting it or not," Webb said. "I wanted him to go somewhere that was more diverse," said Chapman, who enrolled her son at Pike Road's elementary school. She said she worries about how students in the county school system will fare without exposure to children of other races.Beyond racial overtones, those who study secessions say there's also a resource disparity.
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