ABSTRACT

Despite the increasing ethnic diversity of England’s school-age population, academic literature on ethnic school segregation remains small, dated and hindered by methodological challenges. This study seeks to address these issues by measuring ethnic school segregation between 2006–2019 using two methodological innovations. Firstly, it is the first national study in England to adopt a multi-group segregation index to measure segregation between five major groups in a single concise metric. Secondly, it uses a clustering algorithm to group local schools into ‘pseudo-neighbourhoods’, which allows for segregation to be measured within local educational markets. The article shows that between 2006 and 2019 the median level of ethnic school segregation within English pseudo-neighbourhoods fell by 25%, which suggests students from different ethnic groups have become more evenly spread across local schools. Additionally, areas in the North of England were typically found to have higher levels of segregation than those in the South.

摘要

尽管英格兰学龄人口的种族多样性日益增加，但关于种族学校隔离的学术文献仍然很少、过时并且受到方法论挑战的阻碍。本研究旨在通过使用两种方法创新来衡量 2006 年至 2019 年间的种族学校隔离来解决这些问题。首先，这是英国第一个采用多群体隔离指数以单一简明指标衡量五个主要群体之间隔离的全国性研究。其次，它使用聚类算法将当地学校分组为“伪社区”，从而可以衡量当地教育市场内的隔离情况。文章显示，在 2006 年至 2019 年期间，英语伪社区内的种族学校隔离水平中值下降了 25%，这表明来自不同种族群体的学生在当地学校的分布更加均匀。此外，英格兰北部地区的种族隔离程度通常高于南部地区。