I created this project as an add-on to a piece about modern-day redlining in the Gainesville Sun, but because of website incapacities (of which I was unfortunately unaware), it never ran. I used data from the Florida Department of Education to retrieve grades, addresses, demographics, and names for every school in Alachua County.

With that data in hand, I was able to use the javascript library D3 to create a symbol map, where each school in Alachua is represented by a circle with a radius corresponding to its population size and a color corresponding to the percentage of students at the school who are black.

The map reveals a concentration of predominantly black schools in East Gainesville, likely the result of systemic redlining over the years that forced a majority of black community members into one concentrated cluster in East Gainesville.