DESEGREGATION AND THE STABILITY OF WHITE ENROLLMENTS: A SCHOOL-LEVEL ANALYSIS, 1968-84.

District-level studies of "White flight" have pointed to an acceleration of the decline in White enrollments while schools are being desegregated. The authors extend this work by exploring whether particular schools in nine desegregating districts were disproportionate contributors to these declines, using data for the 1968-84 period. The results suggest that several district-level and school-specific characteristics are associated with changes in White school enrollments, but provide little support for the idea that desegregation prompts resegregation. Furthermore, the inability to detect a temporal pattern in changes in enrollments indicates that school-enrollment patterns after desegregation resembled those before desegregation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]