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The Obamas spent MLK day doing community service at Stuart Hobson Middle School, a fairly good public school (Capitol Hill Cluster School) in the District Of Columbia.
The school the First Couple chose to volunteer in is 84 percent black, which is about average for the District, and slightly better off economically:
(The chart is from Greatschools.org. I ve complained about its color charts before logically white, Hispanic, African-American and Asian should be represented by the colors white, brown, black and yellow. But I have finally figured out the rationale behind it! The turquoise color above always represents the largest group, green the second largest, and so on. See the same kind of chart from a high school in the