The system's leaders point to that diversity, which roughly mirrors schools statewide across Alabama, to argue they're not a white-flight suburb. That's a higher share of black students than other suburban districts around Montgomery seen as alternatives to Pike Road. The remainder were Asian, Hispanic or multiracial. In Pike Road, just over half of students were white last year, while about 30% were African American. The study found that an increasing share of segregation between black and white students was caused by district lines as opposed to clustering at specific schools within a district. The study examines 18 districts created since 2000 across Alabama, around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and around Memphis, Tennessee. That means that while an individual district may be able to find ways to more effectively integrate students, district lines usually pose fatal obstacles to such efforts. Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that courts couldn't order desegregation across district lines. The issue is particularly important, Frankenberg says, because the U.S. Those who study the creation of new school districts call the exits secession, conscious of the Civil War overtones that has for districts in the South. "It can help draw boundaries around white spaces," said Erica Frankenberg, a Penn State University professor who is one of three authors of the study, published Wednesday in AERA Open , a journal of the American Educational Research Association. A new study finds that the carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation. Pike Road pulled out of the Montgomery County school district in August 2015, leaving the much larger district even more heavily African American than it was before. "We're competing well in every area that you measure from academics to athletics." "We are extremely proud of where we are," said Pike Road Mayor Gordon Stone. PIKE ROAD - Pike Road High School graduates its first senior class this school year, and leaders of this sprawling, semi-rural suburb of Alabama's capital city extol the young community's focus on education as one of its defining elements. View Gallery: A look inside Pike Road High School
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