As the city of Boston continues to confront issues regarding race and diversity, a new Harvard report reveals that black and Latino students who have similar MCAS scores as their white and Asian classmates still face hurdles preventing admission to the city’s top exam schools.
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s policy brief, which was released Tuesday, found that while black and Latino students make up nearly 75 percent of Boston Public Schools’ student population, but only 40 percent are enrolled in the district’s three exam schools — Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and O’Bryant School of Math and Science — and only 20 percent attended Boston Latin School, concluding that the “exam schools’ student bodies do not reflect the diversity of the wider district.”