Analysis of Election Systems for the Beaverton, OR School District

Beaverton School District 48J (hereafter, the School District) had 255,082 residents as of the 2010 Census. Table 1 shows the demographic breakdown of the district by total population, Voting Age Population (VAP), Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), and Students enrolled in Beaverton School District. The district has two sizable minority groups: Latino residents (who constitute 10.7% of VAP and 7.95% of CVAP) and Asian residents (who constitute 11.7% of VAP and 10.02% of CVAP). We use the term POC (people of color) to refer to residents who are Hispanic or have selected a non-White race in the Census (or both). In total the POC share of CVAP is 24.24%. The distribution of POC residents across the School District is shown in Figure 1.