Sarah Asson

Biographic Data

ID280001
NAMESarah Asson
GIVEN NAMESSarah
FAMILY NAMEAsson
SIGNATUREASSON S
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0009-0001-0412-5279
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Segregation in a Suburban Black Enclave

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…2026

    This study investigated the relationship between school attendance zone boundary (AZB) changes and racial segregation in Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, a diversifying, majority-Black suburban district outside Washington, DC. We found that the district's frequent and widespread elementary AZB changes since 1990 were largely segregative, especially as its court-ordered desegregation plan ended. Our findings reflect a district in…

  • Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2026References: 54

  • The role of noncontiguous attendance zones in shaping school populations

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Ruth Krebs Buck et al.ARTICLEEducation Policy Analysis Archives2024

    Noncontiguous school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) have a unique, relatively uncommon shape that assign two or more non-adjacent residential areas to the same school. Given their ability to shape school enrollments by taking advantage of residential sorting, noncontiguous AZBs have historically been linked to explicit efforts to both segregate and desegregate schools. In this paper, we use a novel, longitudinal dataset of AZBs and descriptive…

  • Rezoning Educational Opportunities

    Open AccessSarah AssonARTICLEEducational Policy2024

    U.S. public schools provide substantially different educational opportunities to students—even within school districts, where attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) shape most children’s access to schools. The (re)drawing of AZBs is therefore a highly consequential policy decision. In this paper, I study how AZB changes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area affect children of different races between 2000 and 2020, including how they alter children…

  • Historical Patterns and Trends in Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline in the United States

    Open AccessMaithreyi Gopalan, Sarah Asson et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2024Cited by: 1References: 16

    This visualization represents the historical patterns and trends in racial/ethnic differences in punitive school discipline over the last five decades in K-12 public schools in the United States. Overall, out-of-school suspension rates show an inverted-U trend with significant increases between 1970 and 2010 followed by decreases in the last decade. On the other hand, corporal punishment rates (and associated racial/ethnic disparities) show a con…

  • Attendance zones in the suburbs

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.ARTICLEPhi Delta Kappan2023

    While suburban schools across the country have become increasingly racially and economically diverse in recent decades, many remain highly segregated. School attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) play a critical role in shaping these patterns of within-district segregation. AZBs are especially important in suburban areas with growing and diversifying student populations. Using novel, longitudinal AZB data dating back to 1990, authors Sarah Asson, Eri…

  • Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes

    Open AccessElizabeth Frankenberg, C S Fowler et al.ARTICLERSF The Russell Sage Foundation…2023Cited by: 5References: 10

    We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1990 to 2010. A steep decline in white, school-age children and an increase in black, Hispanic, and Asian children in both neighborhoods and the schools that serve them suggests that white households reluctant to se…