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# Look Up Private School Demographics With ProPublica’s New Database
- URL: https://werd.io/look-up-private-school-demographics-with-propublicas-new-database/
- Published: 2025-01-17T12:42:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-17T12:42:38.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash, Brandon Roberts and Ken Schwencke at ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-school-demographics-lookup)\]

Private schools in the US are much whiter than public schools. My colleagues over in the newsroom at ProPublica explored this data [while illuminating the ongoing extent of segregation academies in the south](https://www.propublica.org/series/segregation-academies):

> "Our analysis of that survey revealed, among other things, Amite County, Mississippi, where about 900 children attend the local public schools — which, as of 2021, were 16% white. By comparison, the two private schools in the county, with more than 600 children, were 96% white."

But that data hasn't traditionally been easy to explore. Until now:

> "In the course of our reporting, we realized that this data and analysis were illuminating and useful — even outside the South. We decided to create a database to allow anyone to look up a school and view years worth of data."

The [Private School Demographics database](https://projects.propublica.org/private-school-demographics) is available to use for free. It makes it very easy to examine disparities between private schools and their surrounding school districts. And knowing is the first step towards changing something.

[#Democracy](https://werd.io/tag/Democracy)

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-school-demographics-lookup)\]