Question: How Racially Balanced Are Private Schools?
Years ago many private schools were segregated. As our society has become more diverse, we find that private schools have made huge strides in redressing the racial and other imbalances in their communities. Most private schools understand that their graduates must make their living in a society where iconoclastic ideals and elitism have no meaningful place. Diversity rules.
Answer: The racial composition of private school populations varies from school to school. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics 74.5% of private school students were white as shown by data in the 2007-2008 Private School Survey. The private schools with the highest percentage of non-white students are
Girard College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii.