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Good stuff and I didn’t know that about Haverford and Ardmore…I did know about Bryn Mawr and Radnor due to this Pro Football Hall of Famer attending Radnor HS in the late 1930’s/early 1940’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlen_Tunnell
So, is Radnor in higher regard than Lower Merion?
Yes, the Radnor district does have a higher rep than LM, but I wouldn't pick fights over it. Tredyffrin-Easttown, beyond Radnor, is also in that rarefied stratum. (The T-E Historical Society published an article in its journal nearly 20 years ago recalling the fight in the 1930s over the newly combined Treydiffrin and Easttown school districts' proposal to create a segregated school for Blacks in one of its older buildings after opening a new elementary school. The NAACP sued the district. The fight lasted three years but the NAACP ultimately prevailed.)
But while we're on schools, the West Chester Area School District's third and newest high school is named for Bayard Rustin, the openly gay black West Chester Quaker pacifist who did all the heavy lifting in organizing the 1963 March on Washington. Bayard Rustin High usually ranks in the top 20 high schools in the state, and I believe it serves a part of the WCASD that has a higher concentration of Black and Hispanic students.
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^Yes, West Chester is another place with a long time black population/community and also appears to be another good school district.
Another place that comes to mind in terms of having a long time black population, well regarded schools and is relatively upscale is Sewickley located NW of Pittsburgh. I believe some pro athletes pick the community/SD(Quaker Valley) as a place to live. Some historical information: https://pocketsights.com/tours/tour/...tory-Tour-4463
^Other examples of higher/high end suburban communities/school districts with a long time black population is the Spinney Hill area split between the Manhasset and Great Neck SD’s, a community in the Roslyn Heights portion of the Roslyn SD and Port Washington west of its Downtown. All are in the same part of Nassau County on the North Shore of Long Island. Oyster Bay is another Nassau County/North Shore community with a long time black population, which goes back centuries.
Those are some others off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are other examples in other states in the region. While not high end, I know places in the Boston area like Medford and Woburn have low key, but long time black populations.
In many cases, the population is located around a church or two(usually a Baptist and/or AME/AME Zion church).
Tuckahoe NY is another higher income community with a long time black community that has been there for well over a century and most of the population is in the eastern half of the village(east of Fairview Avenue/Cameron Place and on both sides of Main Street). https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p..._yer41V1U&_rdr
Again, this is another one of these communities with a couple of places of worship that tip you off to a black population, as the AME and Baptist churches are in this area of town.
You excluded the best answer! But I believe Philadelphia would work. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I felt that the areas around Media, Swarthmore, Germantown, etc. were particularly comfortable and had some of the more progressive black families there. Boston isn't the answer imho.
Here is an interesting article from almost 4 years ago about the bolded community and gentrification of a section of town where much of the black population is concentrated: https://www.broadstreetreview.com/ar...lude-everybody
Yes, the Radnor district does have a higher rep than LM, but I wouldn't pick fights over it. Tredyffrin-Easttown, beyond Radnor, is also in that rarefied stratum. (The T-E Historical Society published an article in its journal nearly 20 years ago recalling the fight in the 1930s over the newly combined Treydiffrin and Easttown school districts' proposal to create a segregated school for Blacks in one of its older buildings after opening a new elementary school. The NAACP sued the district. The fight lasted three years but the NAACP ultimately prevailed.)
But while we're on schools, the West Chester Area School District's third and newest high school is named for Bayard Rustin, the openly gay black West Chester Quaker pacifist who did all the heavy lifting in organizing the 1963 March on Washington. Bayard Rustin High usually ranks in the top 20 high schools in the state, and I believe it serves a part of the WCASD that has a higher concentration of Black and Hispanic students.
An example of adjacent communities where there is a presence of continuous blocks between them with predominantly black and/or diverse blocks with a substantial black population is the southern end of Greenlawn/the western/SW end of Elwood in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County NY on Long Island. It is essentially the area south of Little Plains Road/west of Manor Road/north of East Jericho Turnpike and east of Park Avenue and Dix Hills Road.
While this is data from 2010, here are some blocks in both of those communities and within that area(at 20% and higher)...
So, you may also have an area like this one, that has a pretty high black resident presence and is split up between communities and/or school districts.
An example of adjacent communities where there is a presence of continuous blocks between them with predominantly black and/or diverse blocks with a substantial black population is the southern end of Greenlawn/the western/SW end of Elwood in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County NY on Long Island. It is essentially the area south of Little Plains Road/west of Manor Road/north of East Jericho Turnpike and east of Park Avenue and Dix Hills Road.
While this is data from 2010, here are some blocks in both of those communities and within that area(at 20% and higher)...
So, you may also have an area like this one, that has a pretty high black resident presence and is split up between communities and/or school districts.
Here is information based on 2021 Census information about census block groups that those blocks above are in(a couple of block groups cover areas outside of the general area I mentioned), Greenlawn: https://censusreporter.org/profiles/...07-suffolk-ny/
You may also have an area that is located in one community, but is within a school district based in another nearby community like the Belmont Park/northern West Babylon area(north of the Southern State Parkway). While it is a portion of West Babylon, that area is largely zoned for the North Babylon SD. The census tract that covers that area: https://censusreporter.org/profiles/...02-suffolk-ny/
So, this is another thing to keep in mind where looking at neighborhoods.
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