# chicago school statistics in the 1960's

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**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-school-statistics-in-the-1960s/611152 "2012-01-30T03:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![flowsens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@flowsens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flowsens)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-school-statistics-in-the-1960s/611152/1 "2012-01-30T03:36:07Z")

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Where on Earth do you find statistics on chicago school violence, achievement, etc.  
for the late 1960’s. Is there a place of defunct school records?

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**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-school-statistics-in-the-1960s/611152/2 "2012-01-31T15:46:14Z")

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[Here’s one place to start.](http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1124.html) I took a Chicago History course back when I was going to college - this book is fascinating.

Also, you might want to call one of the Chicago Public Libraries - they should have someone who can maybe steer you in the right direction.

[You could also go right to the horse’s mouth so to speak. Ask 'em yourself.](http://cps.edu/Pages/home.aspx)

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-school-statistics-in-the-1960s/611152/3 "2012-01-31T20:09:22Z")

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I thought from the title, this thread would be stuff like: “Did you know that Milton Friedman met his long lost cousin in 1964”?

Edit: no I didn’t. Statistics would be “did you know, the Chicago School only employed one Milton from 1960-1967”?

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**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-school-statistics-in-the-1960s/611152/4 "2012-01-31T23:56:02Z")

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I do happen to know that the Chicago Public Schools passed the 50%-nonwhite-enrollment mark as far back as 1963 - which happens to be the first year records of enrollment by race were kept. (I believe Mexicans were classified as “Other” that year.)