Minority Group and Class Status as Related to Social and Personality Factors in Scholastic Achievement

The study used two samples of elementary school children from fourth, fifth, and sixth grades.* Two whole classes at each grade level from each of two schools were used, making a total of twelve classes, and including approximately 400 children.** One school from which subjects were drawn was in a racially encapsulated area and over 99 per cent of its enrollment was Negro. This is the experimental school. The other, control school, was in a white neighborhood of similar socio-economic level, with a white enrollment of 94 per cent.