Analysis of Election Systems for the Wenatchee School District

Analysis of Election Systems for the Wenatchee School District

23 Jul 2021

The Wenatchee School District (herefter, the School District) had 42,698 residents as of the 2010 Census. Table 1 shows the demographic breakdown of the school district by total population, Voting Age Population (VAP), Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), and Students enrolled in Wenatchee School District. Wenatchee has one sizable minority group: Latino residents constitute 18.1% of CVAP, 21.8% of VAP and 27.4% of total population. 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 22.7%. The distribution of POC residents across the district is show in Figure 1.
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Authors

Amy Becker, Dara Gold, Brad Souders, Thomas Weighill

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United States of America

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