Places and Spaces: The Onboarding and Retention of Black Students in K-12 Private Schools

This study aimed to identify the social and academic constructs that Black students have made to enter and graduate from private, predominantly White, K–12 institutions. Through a comprehensive examination of themes derived from a narrative model with interviews, this research sought to identify the challenges Black students faced, what they did to overcome the challenges, and then to raise programmatic awareness in those institutions to ease the burden on Black students, their families, and to ease the challenges they face while at those institutions. This study could potentially create new insights into what makes a Black student and their families successful in predominantly White institutions.