Gentrifying areas Fewer kids, fewer school-age kids
GENTRIFICATION Gentrifiers slow to buy CPS, displaced students paying the price Chart: Fewer whites use gentrified-area schools Chart: People move in, but don't use CPS schools Chart: Fewer kids, fewer school-aged kids Roscoe Village group works to bridge school, community gap Gentrifiers give public schools a chance How three families are dealing with displacement Overcrowded school serves displaced students Schools in hot areas lose local students Research on gentrification, education	Although more people are living in the city's most rapidly gentrifying areas on the North Side, CPS enrollment dropped 18 percent in the five years between 1995 and 2000. Source: CATALYST analysis of census data. Chicago Public Schools data provided by Consortium on Chicago School Research, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data provided by the Woodstock Institute.
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