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Middle ring: Trying to stem flight: Keeping middle-class families is essential to schools' strength, success.

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

| November 26, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ann Doss Helms

Nov. 26--Andrew Thiel wants McClintock Middle School to prove that middle-class flight isn't irreversible. But he knows that when it comes to schools, the middle ground between suburban prosperity and urban poverty is eroding.

McClintock sits in a naturally diverse area, between largely affluent Myers Park and east Charlotte, which is home to some of the most impoverished parts of the city. . It entered the neighborhood-school era in 2002 with just over 400 white students and almost the same number of blacks. Its poverty level was 47 percent.

Today, the count of white students is down by 250. Black enrollment has grown…

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