Duncanville Going Through "Black Flight"? (Dallas, Fort Worth: middle-class, homes)

[hillflan]

According to the data released by TEA, the number of African American Students in Duncanville are beginning to come to a halt, even decreasing in some schools, while the number of Hispanic Students are increasing by the year. I guess the African American families are moving to places such as Midlothian and Red Oak, because the number of African American and Hispanic students there are increasing, and the White Population seems to have gradually decreased in all of those areas, similar to the same thing that happened to Cedar Hill/Desoto in the late 90s. This Information is really interesting to me.


Duncanville 2009 Elementary School Accountability Ratings-2009 Campus Accountability Data Table
You may notice that in 2008, more African American Students took the reading portion of the TAKS than any other subgroup. In 2009, Hispanics became the largest minority taking that portion at the school. I guess race flights, not just Whites and Blacks, are never ending cycles.

[Lakewooder]

That is interesting - a similar story is how some of the 'historically black' Dallas high schools have gotten extremely small but there is resistance to changing the attendance zones because the schools would instantly have large hispanic percentages.

[Acntx]

I found these enrollment figures for Duncanville ISD at the TEA web site.

2008-2009 - 12,660 Total Students
5,665 Hispanics (44.74%)
5,450 African Americans (43.05%)
1,188 Whites (9.38%)
324 Asians (2.56%)
33 Native Americans (0.26%)

2002-2003 - 10,956 Total Students
4,754 African Americans (43.39%)
3,118 Hispanics (28.46%)
26 Native Americans (0.24%)
288 Asians (2.63%)
2,770 Whites (25.28%)

Duncanville ISD is diverse and it has been a while since a single ethnic group formed a majority of the student body. The African-American population peaked at 5,717 (46.34%) in the 2005-06 school year. Since then, that number fell to 5,559 in 2006-07, 5,429 in 2007-08, and rose slightly to 5,450 in 2008-09. The 2008-09 school year was the first time that Hispanics outnumbered African Americans in the district. Duncanville ISD is a bit different than other area school districts as its boundaries extend into a sizable portion of southwest Dallas, an area with a rising Hispanic population. School district demographics continue to change across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The city of Duncanville's demographics changed the least during the 1990s while other cities such as Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Lancaster experienced an influx of middle-class African American residents. This was due in part to the fact that Duncanville, unlike the other communities, was mostly built out. According to the American Community Survey statistics released last year, the city of Duncanville is 54.6% White, 29.0% Hispanic, and 22.4% Black.

[DaveG99]

The Dallas suburbs are very segregated.

[hillflan]

Duncanville has been changing for a while now, yet it is still a great City. I prefer Cedar Hill over it.

[theloneranger]

All this really shows is that Duncanville ISD's area is growing. Most of the black families in the district are middle class and have been stable in the area for years, whereas the Latino population is new to the area and will continue to grow.

The black population grew as well.

Meanwhile, the white population of the area simply grows older and as such has fewer children to send to the schools.

It isn't a sign of black flight, it's the combination of the final trails of white flight hitting the district and the influx of Latinos to North Texas.

[Grainraiser]

Well it is not a surprise to me. I grew up in Oak Cliff and all the whites that lived around Kimball and Carter Highschool started moving to Duncanville in the late 70's. The blacks followed them and by the late 80's they began to migrate to Red Oak, Midlothian etc. The blacks have now started to follow them out there. Starting in the late 90's the hispanics starting moving south in Oak Cliff. They know have healthy populations in all of the high schools in Oak Cliff and are now beginning to move out to Duncanville, Desoto, Cedar Hill etc. Now whites are moving to North Oak Cliff and spreading south were the hispanics use to dominate. I suspect in the next 15-20 years Oak Cliff will have a healthy white population and the southern burbs will be made up of blacks and hispanics. It's just one big cycle I tell you. Living anywhere inside of 635 is going to the hot place to live within the next 15-20 years. Poor folks will be in the burbs while the middle and upper class will be in the inner city.

[Grainraiser]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

The Dallas suburbs are very segregated.

That's only in the northern burbs. Every where else is pretty diverse. Look at cities like Garland and Mesquite and they have a mixture of everything. Same for the Southern burbs.

[DaveG99]

Originally Posted by Grainraiser

Well it is not a surprise to me. I grew up in Oak Cliff and all the whites that lived around Kimball and Carter Highschool started moving to Duncanville in the late 70's. The blacks followed them and by the late 80's they began to migrate to Red Oak, Midlothian etc. The blacks have now started to follow them out there. Starting in the late 90's the hispanics starting moving south in Oak Cliff. They know have healthy populations in all of the high schools in Oak Cliff and are now beginning to move out to Duncanville, Desoto, Cedar Hill etc. Now whites are moving to North Oak Cliff and spreading south were the hispanics use to dominate. I suspect in the next 15-20 years Oak Cliff will have a healthy white population and the southern burbs will be made up of blacks and hispanics. It's just one big cycle I tell you. Living anywhere inside of 635 is going to the hot place to live within the next 15-20 years. Poor folks will be in the burbs while the middle and upper class will be in the inner city.

so all those $1,000,000 homes up north will have poor people living in them?

[hillflan]

The African American Percentage went down, not up.