This is an entirely misleading garbage statistic.<p>This statistic only relates to the rather small Kansas City Missouri public school district which only contains an estimated 17,500 students.<p>The author is misleading readers to believe that this statistic relates to all the schools in a relatively large US City named &quot;Kansas City.&quot;<p>Per wikipedia:<p>In fact, there are portions of Kansas City, Missouri, where children attend 14 other &quot;suburban&quot; districts. In other words, the Kansas City District comprises the oldest parts of the city and is not contiguous with the boundaries of the city of Kansas City, Missouri.<p>So if we look up the total demographic of students that live in that same small geographic footprint I&#x27;d wager to say its not much higher than 9% white. (although that information is proving much more difficult to find)<p>As bachmeier comments - there is much more to the story.