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The estimated average family income for scholarship recipients is $18,750 (Metcalf, 1999). Approximately 74% of scholarship recipients are from racial or ethnic minority groups, similar to that of the Cleveland Public School District.
Jay Greene, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has compared the racial makeup of private schools with public schools in metropolitan Cleveland. He found that:
"…[N]early a fifth (19%) of recipients of a voucher in Cleveland attend private schools that have a racial composition that resembles the average racial composition of the Cleveland area … but only 5.2% of public schools students in the Cleveland metropolitan area are in comparably integrated schools. More than three-fifths (61%) of public school students in metropolitan Cleveland attend schools that are almost entirely white or almost entirely minority in their racial composition. Half of the students in the Cleveland Scholarship Program are in comparably segregated schools. The amount of integration is not great in either system, but it is markedly better in the choice program."
"The Racial, Economic, and Religious Context of Parental Choice in Cleveland," paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management meeting in Washington, D.C., November, 1999. See Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance.
A recent state evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, which is based on a longitudinal cohort of students now in fifth grade, found that:
"Students who receive and use a scholarship through the CSTP are proportionally less likely to be African-American and more likely to be Hispanic and Multiracial than students who attend public schools."
Kim Metcalf, "Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship Program, Summary Report 1998-2002," Indiana Center for Evaluation, December 2003.
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