Its enrollment is now about 93 percent black and Hispanic.

Without the quota, he said, the school, with 2,500 students in grades 7 through 12, would be only 15 percent black and Hispanic.

Today the city is more than 85 percent black and Hispanic.

In addition, the city's public school student body is now more than 70 percent black and Hispanic.

Today, the same size population is 50.5 percent black, Asian or Hispanic.

The board may ultimately select a minority candidate to run a system that is about 80 percent black and Hispanic.

The district's enrollment has become 99 percent black or Hispanic, according to state records for 2002.

But many white parents send their children to private school, so the public school enrollment is more than 80 percent black and Hispanic.

Thus, the percent Hispanic should not be added to percentages for racial categories.

Ten of the 35 current Council districts have populations that are more than 60 percent black or Hispanic.