Analysis of Election Systems for the Salem-Keizer Unified School District

The Salem-Keizer Unied School District (hereafter, the School District or school district) had a total population of 242,521 people in the 2010 Census count. 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 Salem-Keizer School District. The district has one sizable minority group: Latino residents, who constitute 21.8% of the total population, 16.7% of VAP and 13.4% 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 21.3%. The distribution of POC residents across the School District is shown in Figure 2.