El desafío de la segregación escolar en República Dominicana

The main goal of the present article is to estimate the magnitude of school segregation according to the students’ socioeconomic status in primary education in the Dominican Republic; specifically in schools situated in the urban areas. In order to do this, we exploited the information provided by the National Diagnostic Assessment 2017, which assesses all third-grade primary school students. Our study analyzes the cases of 157,754 students enrolled in 7,791 schools located in the 18 Regional Educational Directorates in which the Dominican educational system is divided. We also used the Gorard and Isolation indexes with the socioeconomic index as the criterion variable, for four minority groups. The results indicate that the magnitude of school segregation in primary schools is medium-high, showing that students from families with a higher socioeconomic status tend to exercise more segregation than others.