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See What Patterns Emerged in DNAinfo's Gifted and Talented Map

By  Amy Zimmer and Nigel Chiwaya | September 29, 2015 4:04pm 

 DNAinfo analyzed NYC's 2014 gifted and talented data and found patterns of racial segregation.
DNAinfo analyzed NYC's 2014 gifted and talented data and found patterns of racial segregation.
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DNAinfo analyzed data from the city Education Department's gifted and talented programs last school year and found some patterns worth noting in the racially segregated system.

G&T programs have drawn a lot of criticism since their inception for fast-tracking accelerated students at the expense of the general population. The city tried to alter the tests in 2012 to address the issue but it still persists.

DNAinfo pulled the racial breakdown of all the city's 103 G&T programs, as compared to the racial breakdown of the schools in which they are located, and created a map that displays the clear division between the two.

► SEE DNAinfo's G&T Segregation Map Here

Here are some of the notable findings:

► Hispanic students were the least represented in all G&T programs across the city. Only one school, P.S. 121 in Allerton, The Bronx, had a higher percent of Hispanic students in the G&T program than in the general population (and even that proportion was slight.)

► White students were disproportionately present in G&T classes at 36 schools across the city (meaning there was a higher percentage of white students in G&T than in the school's general population.)

► The areas where the white G&T presence was most out of proportion were: the Lower East Side's District 1, the Upper West Side's District 3, Williamsburg and Greenpoint's District 14, and District 15, which runs from Carroll Gardens and Red Hook down to Park Slope and Sunset Park.

► Asian students were disproportionately present at G&T classes in 56 schools.

The school districts in which that was most evident were: Queens' District 24 (which includes Corona, Ridgewood, Elmhurst and parts of Long Island City), District 25 (which includes Flushing and Whitestone) and District 28 (which includes Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and South Jamaica.)

► The city currently has 103 gifted and talented programs, the overwhelming majority of which are district-based, which means any students in the district can apply for admission as long as they score a 90 or above on the gifted and talented test.