Hi, I'm Natalie Moore, Southside Bureau Reporter for WB EZ, and you're listening to Curious City.

It's where we answer your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.

And in this episode, children in schools.

Later, we'll look at truancy in how keeping kids in school has changed over the years.

But first, we'll tackle a question about the racial composition of Chicago public schools.

How many white children in the city attend CPS?

And why does that matter?

The answer may surprise you.

That's coming up right after this.

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I'm Natalie Moore and you're listening to Curious City.

Today's question comes from a woman who wanted to remain anonymous. She asked us,

what percentage of white

school-age children attend public school? Well, the short answer is 51 percent, according to the U.S.

census. So roughly half of all white children who could go to CPS do. The other half gets their

education somewhere else. We'll get into the ramifications for

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