Of the only 186 law schools, this analysis only includes the 177 historically white law schools. Historically white law schools are those schools who have historically predominantly served white students many of the schools have histories of excluding traditionally discriminated against racial groups and/or no significant history of proportionately serving those same groups.

Of America's historically white law schools, 61 (34.5%) are over 85% white; 148 schools ( 84.8% )  had Total Whiteness greater than 70%;  27 schools (14.7%) had whiteness below 55%. (Table)

The average (mean) Whiteness was 80.3%; the median 81.4% and the minimum 54.6% and the maximum 96.3%.  There were very minor changes in the mean, median and maximum.  There was significant increase in the minimum (by 25.4 percentage points) but this increase is probably due to dropping the University of Hawaii from the historically white law schools.  57.1% (100) of the schools have whiteness greater than 80%. (Table)

The highest percentage of whiteness was The University of Montana (96.3%); the lowest was St.  Thomas University (54.6%). (Chart)

US News Tiers. Tier designation was based on the 2005 US News & World Report Rankings. The first tier schools  had the lowest average whiteness  (76.6%); the third (85.5%) had the highest. For the  first tier, the median was 75.8%; the median for the third tier was 86.3%. (Table)  These results were statistically significant at a .000 level. That is, there is zero probability that these results occurred by chance. One meaning of these results is that as schools move from the fourth tier to the third they become more white. 

This results is demonstrated even more clearly when you look at how the schools are grouped in the first and third tier. In first tier, 11 schools (21.2%) had less than 70% whiteness; 33 schools (63.5%) had between 70 and  85% whiteness; only 8 schools (15.4%) had over 85% whiteness. While in the third tier,  only 1 school (3.6%) had less than 70% whiteness; only 11 schools (39.3%) whiteness; and, 16 schools (57.1%) had over  85% whiteness. (Table)

The fourth tier had the most schools (32.8%) that were over 85% white and the first tier had the most schools (42.3%) that were less than 70% white. There was only 1 school that was less that 55% white and it was not ranked. (Table)

Public-Private Type. The public-private designation was based on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar listing. Of the 177 Historically White Law Schools, 105 are private schools and 72 are public schools. Private schools had the lowest average whiteness  (78.9%); and the public schools average whiteness was 82.3%. Similiarly, private schools had the lowest median (79.3%) and public schools had the highest (83.7%).(Table) The difference was statistically significant (p=.015); that is there is less than a 1.5% probability that these results occurred by chance.

43.1% of  public schools were over 85% white compared to only 28.6% of the private schools (Table) Of the schools with over 85% whiteness there were almost evenly divided between private and public schools. However, of the schools with less than 70% whiteness only 34.6% were public schools. (Table)

Regions. Regions are defined according to the ABA/LSAC Official Guide. There are 10 regions.