Thank you, dankrutka, for the info on Integrated Schools and I agree wholeheartedly with most of the sentiments expressed. In my family's experience, we weren't turned off by diversity but by the lack of local autonomy in our former OKCPS neighborhoood school. The bureaucratic decisions made by the monolithic administration were detrimental to the entire building's morale, despite teachers' and parents' best efforts to turn things around. In the end we chose John Rex for both its diversity (ethnic and socioeconomic) and local autonomy that allows innovation and creativity to flourish.