Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the separation of educational facilities based on race. In Brown, African American students were denied access to public schools attended by their white counterparts because of segregation laws. These Black students fought for equal access and admission to public schools under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court ultimately held that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This historic decision did not lead to desegregation across American school systems. Almost seventy years later, New York is still the “most segregated state in the nation for Black students and second-most segregated for Latino students, following only California.” The 2021 New York School Segregation Report Card highlights how slowly New York schools have integrated over the course of seventy years. While there are declining trends of “intense segregation” in New York City public schools (>90% non-white student population), between 2010 and 2018, that decline was only two percent, decreasing from 72% to 70%. This lack of diversity in NYC public schools is alarming because many lower income Black and Brown communities have experienced rapid gentrification since the mid-2010’s, which is not reflected in their school’s demographics.‌‌ Even with gentrification increasing the number of non-Black and non-Latinx people in certain NYC communities, the school systems have not changed as drastically as the neighborhoods have. This gentrification keeps school segregation stable and can lead to the closure of schools in communities of color altogether. Urban Matters: A Housing Initiative found that gentrifying families tend to opt out of the schools in the areas they are gentrifying, leaving schools in gentried neighborhoods to struggle to and students to teach. Stanford’s Center for Education and Policy Analysis found that, “school closures increased the probability that the most segregated Black neighborhoods experienced gentrification by 8 percentage points.” Thus, gentrification, which may appear antithetical to segregation, is not only fueling it but leading to school closures all together.‌‌