Over the past five years, do you think that the schools in your community have gotten better, stayed about the same, or gotten worse?

 

Black Population

General Population

 

Better

%

Same

%

Worse

%

D/K

%

(N)

Better

%

Same

%

Worse

%

D/K

%

(N)

Total

28.5

36.9

27.6

7.1

850

28.5

38.0

25.9

7.6

850

White

-

-

-

-

-

26.1

39.5

25.7

8.7

709

Men

Women

33.0

24.4

29.9

43.1

32.2

23.4

4.8

9.0

400

450

35.0

22.4

37.6

38.4

25.0

26.7

2.4

12.6

412

438

18-25

26-35

36-50

51-64

65+

36.7

32.4

29.2

23.1

22.0

20.5

32.1

34.8

43.7

65.1

41.4

24.0

26.6

29.6

3.6

1.4

11.6

9.4

3.6

9.3

127

168

257

175

88

34.8

24.1

30.6

21.7

34.5

32.6

33.7

41.5

43.4

34.5

31.5

30.1

21.3

30.7

19.0

1.1

12.0

6.6

4.2

12.1

89

166

301

166

116

Northeast

Midwest

South

West

20.5

24.6

32.6

28.0

53.4

40.4

32.2

26.0

18.4

26.9

28.1

41.9

7.7

8.1

7.1

4.1

153

156

452

88

26.7

26.8

30.4

28.8

47.1

41.0

36.5

28.8

20.3

25.9

27.4

28.8

5.8

6.3

5.7

14.1

172

205

296

177

Liberal

Moderate

Secular conservative

Christian conservative

33.3

25.4

27.0

23.6

46.0

31.8

34.4

28.7

14.9

40.6

38.6

26.5

5.8

2.3

-

21.2

333

354

24

115

31.0

29.4

34.1

23.0

39.3

37.6

41.7

34.7

22.3

25.1

22.7

29.1

7.4

7.8

1.5

13.3

229

255

132

196

Less than HS

HS Graduate

Some College/Tech

College Degree+

16.5

33.5

26.7

29.9

48.9

36.5

48.0

26.6

26.2

27.1

20.9

29.8

8.4

2.9

4.4

13.8

97

277

184

259

41.2

25.0

37.7

22.9

27.5

35.1

40.2

41.6

23.5

28.5

18.0

28.8

7.8

11.8

4.2

7.3

51

228

239

315

Less than $15,000

$15-$35,000

$35-$60,000

$60-$75,000

$75-$90,000

More than $90,000

26.8

42.8

15.2

31.0

53.2

43.7

32.3

43.3

31.7

54.4

-

29.8

40.9

1.4

44.3

14.6

46.8

14.0

-

12.6

8.7

-

-

12.5

75

129

211

39

41

63

37.8

25.5

24.1

26.8

38.2

34.9

20.0

45.2

43.6

36.6

47.3

33.9

33.3

19.7

25.7

28.2

10.9

26.6

8.9

9.6

6.6

8.5

3.6

4.6

45

157

257

71

55

109

Children

No Children

36.5

21.9

25.5

46.3

35.5

20.8

2.5

11.0

326

460

29.9

27.7

40.6

37.7

23.0

27.0

6.6

7.7

318

470