How racially diverse was your high/secondary school?

[DC Al Fine]

Halifax is still very, very white. If you live in a nice neighbourhood your school will be 5% Asian or Arab. If you live in a poor neighbourhood, it will be 5% black. Not much of a difference.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm quite curious, especially about the phenomena that is sometimes observed of auto-segregation. My schooling was fairly mixed - there was definitely cliques that skewed disproportionally Chinese or Ghanian or Greek or Indian; but I don't think there was any outright segregation. Is this different in America? Like are there black cliques and white cliques and Hispanic cliques?

We're about 8-10% black and 1-2% Hispanic. At a small high school like mine, that means there really can't be racial cliques.

[dead0man]

idk exactly but something like
65%white
30%black
5%other (mostly asian...and most of those were Vietnamese I think)

There were lots of cliques, but they were more based on social status than race (and certainly not religion).

[Mr. Smith]

Very diverse.

I think it was like 36% white, 30% black, 20% Hispanic, 14% Other.

[SWE]

93.5% white

[Torie]

Around 15% Hispanic perhaps. Next to no Asians or blacks. This was back around 1968. The High School district took in Encino and parts of Van Nuys.

[Хahar 🤔]

Lynbrook High School, 2011–12 school year (my last year):

Asian: 1443 (80.70%)
White: 245 (13.70%)
Hispanic: 49 (2.74%)
Two or More Races: 23 (1.29%)
Filipino: 14 (0.78%)
African-American: 10 (0.56%)
Pacific Islander: 2 (0.11%)
Native American: 2 (0.11%)

[Xing]

It was 80-85% white. A lot of teachers and administrators discussed ways to make the school more diverse, but I think they went about it in entirely the wrong way.

[YaBoyNY]

I'd say probably somewhere like 35% White, 35% Black, 20% Hispanic and 10% Asian.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I went through our old class Facebook page, and we had 58 white people, 6 black people, 3 Asian people, and 2 Hispanic people (probably "white Hispanics", so make it 60 whites).  Yes, my high school was quite small (private school).

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Very little diversity. Bunch of white trash meth heads.

[FairBol]

At the time of my graduation in 2000, not too much.  We did have some blacks and Hispanics in the school, but it seemed like a large majority of students were white. 

According to http://public-schools.startclass.com/l/17599/Fairfield-Warde-High-School, as of 2014, there were 1,459 students enrolled at the school.  Of these, 77.2 percent are white, and 14.6 percent are Hispanic or black. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It was roughly 50-50 black and white when I went there. Now it's roughly 40-40-18-2 with the 18 being Hispanic and the 2 being Asian.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Very very white and Catholic, my class had one Chinese guy and one Jewish guy and that was as diverse as you could get at my school(there were also like 5 girls)

(But then again almost everyone in Argentina is white or mestizo)

[Crumpets]

I can't find actual numbers, but if I had to guess I'd say something like 50% white, 30% Asian, 10% black, 10% other, including Hispanic, Native American, and mixed.

It was definitely more socially integrated as a school than when I was at college. High school was easily the period of my life when I made the most non-white friends, and things like hangout spots and parties had pretty much the same demographics of the school as a whole.

When I get home, I'll check my yearbook and see if those numbers are close to right - I'm sure Asian was the most over-represented group compared to the city average, though.

[Figueira]

90%+ white. The non-white people were often friends with each other, but they still were friends with the white people as well.

And yeah, Catholic vs. Protestant wasn't really a thing. Some people in my school didn't even know what their parents' religion was.

[Illiniwek]

According to the Chicago Tribune, my school of 1332 students was 88% white, 0.2% black, 2.5% Hispanic, 4.2% Asian, and 4.9% multiracial/ethnic. Yeah, not real diverse....

[Tender Branson]

99.8% White.

Of about 500 students, probably not more than 1 was non-white.

I know 1 female student a few classes below me who was adopted from Bangladesh as an infant.

PS: I consider Austrian students of Turkish origin as White.

There were probably many years when it was 100% White.

[Ban my account ffs!]

83% white, 15% native, 2% other

[RINO Tom]

~70% White

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Almost all white, with only a handful of nonwhites (many of whom were exchange students).  Given that my hometown is almost all white as well, it shouldn't come as a surprise.

[seb_pard]

mmm in my class it was like: a few argentinians, colombians, brazilians, a apanish guy, a Taiwanese girl (born in Chile and culturally chilean) 3 Jewish (although one was from Colombia), the rest were typical chilean whites (private school), although a high percentage were from Palestinian descent (there are many in Chile).

[bagelman]

There were like 5 black people in a school of 2000. Around 80-85% NH White with Asians as the largest minority.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

In a class of 200+ we had zero blacks, maybe a brown or two, but my school was whiter than a loaf of Wonder Bread.

[Tender Branson]

99.8% White.

Of about 500 students, probably not more than 1 was non-white.

I know 1 female student a few classes below me who was adopted from Bangladesh as an infant.

PS: I consider Austrian students of Turkish origin as White.

There were probably many years when it was 100% White.

It seems this has not changed much over the past 12 years when I was a student there:

http://www.hakzell.at/schueler-eltern/klassen-schueler/klassen-uebersicht.html

From 19 classes with 20-25 students each, I can only spot one black student ...