TABLE V Percentage of Total Annual Enrollment in Each of Seattle Schools Belonging to Same School at Close of School Year, June, 1923 The accompanying map of the city presents in graphic form the facts with regard to the geographical distribution of mobility within the city. Perhaps the most noticeable fact revealed in Table V and the map is the rather extreme segregation of a mobile population in the downtown area. The Central school has the strikingly low proportion of 44.2 per cent of its total enrollment still in residence at the close of the year, while its neighbors, the Cascade and Denny, have ratios almost as low. The Warren, Mercer, Summit and Pacific schools immediately adjoining the central area, indicate a relatively high rate of mobility, a fact which also seems to be borne out by later evidence. With the exception of this marked lumping of mobility in the central area and the gradual shading off in the area of disorganization immediately surrounding the center, there seems to be no general principle by which we might explain the geographical segregation of mobility in Seattle. The high rates of mobility in the Allen and Fairview districts in the ex treme northern portion of the city seem to be somewhat exceptional as the record of school transfers for these schools for the previous year (1922) reveals a rate of mobility of little more than half of that indicated for 1923. The Fairview, Bagley and Whittier, all of which show a high rate of mobility are located, however, in an area of the city in which home-building has been active during the last few years. They represent the newer home districts of the city, the real estate men of the city having long asserted that the most active residential area of the city is located north of the canal. It may be noted too that the areas of the city in which the more wealthy citizens reside, such as the Leschi, Madrona, McGilvra, Stevens, Yesler and Lafayette show a relatively low rate of mobility. The Bailey Gatzert school, located near the center of the city, but attended almost exclusively by Japanese and Chinese has an exceedingly low rate of mobility. The Orientals undoubtedly do not move about so much as the white population and their movement within the city is quite largely restricted to the one district. A compilation of the total number of addresses at which the children of the nine schools had resided, seems further to substantiate the validity of the generalizations just stated. TABLE VI Total Number of Addresses at Which Children of Nine Seattle Schools Have Resided -Percentage of the Enrollment of Each School The Central and Denny schools show the highest rates of mobility, while the Stevens and Mann schools show the lowest. Of the nine schools represented, the Central and Denny schools have the lowest percentages of their pupils who have resided at but one address, and the Stevens and Mann schools have the highest percentages of this class. The situation is exactly reversed as regards the percentages of children of the respective schools who have lived at a large number of addresses, that is nine addresses. The median number of addresses at which the children have resided is six for the Central, Summit, Denny and Cascade, five for the Warren and Pacific, and four for the Mann, Washington and Stevens, thus indicating a very striking similarity with the facts of mobility as shown in Illustration I. Extreme cases of mobility are noted in the Central and Summit schools, where individual children have lived in as many as forty different addresses. III. TYPES OF MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL While the subject of international migrations is of rather secondary importance in the study of mobility here described, in so far as it partakes of the nature of an intra-national movement, it demands attention. The population of Seattle born in other lands constituted in 1920, 25.7 per cent of the total population, while 19.2 per cent of the school population studied was born in other lands. TABLE VII Per Cent Distribution of Foreign Born Population of Seattle by Country of Birth |