Evaluating administrative measures of school quality as mediators of the relationship between attending a segregated school and cognitive function among older Black individuals: the STAR study.

ABSTRACT: Research highlights school segregation's impact on cognitive aging for older Black adults, yet the mediating role of school quality-reflecting systemic (dis)investment in segregated schools-remains unexplored. This study included 726 community-dwelling Black adults from the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans. Participants self-reported segregated school attendance, while administrative measures of state-level school quality (term length, percent attendance, student-teacher ratio, composite z score) were linked to their grade-specific state of residence. We estimated the extent to which associations between segregated schooling and domain-specific cognition were mediated by school quality. Sensitivity analyses examined grade-specific effects. Attending a segregated school was assoc

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12634120 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature