By childhood, I mean up to the age of 18.
You may wish to state your ethnicity and approximate age in your answer, as well as place or places where you grew up. Any other details are obviously up to the respondent.
To start off…
I am black; I just turned 40 and grew up in Memphis. Both of the neighborhoods I grew up in were all black. One still is, while the other no longer exists.
Virtually all the students in my elementary school were black. The sole exception I can think of was my best friend Don, whose mother was a teacher at the school and who attended the school for that reason. I would guess that the faculty was evenly divided. Of the ten faculty members whose names and faces I can recall with ease, six were black and four white.
My junior high school was maybe 10% white and 90% black; likewise the high school. During those years, the proportion of white teachers, librarians, & such increased to maybe three-quarters, but that’s just a guess.
I cannot remember having a Hispanic, Native American, or Asian as a classmate or acquaintance until college.
The church I attended was all black. I have no data to indicate whether it still is or not, but I would bet that little has changed.
Anybody else? Anyone? Bueller?