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38 Bachelor’s Degree or Higher 58% High School or Some College 34% Less Than High School 8% Figure 29: Education Attainment Social Determinants of Health Social Determinants of Health includes the availability of health care services; affordability of services and health insurance; ability to navigate and understand the health system; physical access to services (including transportation and disability access); information about health care, human-made structures and community design (such as housing, recreational facilities, sidewalks, streets, businesses, schools, parks, playground); and socioeconomic conditions to include poverty and homelessness. Poverty, education level, and housing are three important social determinants of health. Education Figure 29 shows that 34% of Orange County’s residents have at least a high school diploma, while over half have a bachelor’s degree or a form of higher education. According to Orange County’s Community Profile, Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) serves more than 11,000 students through three traditional high schools, four middle schools, ten elementary schools, a school for young people who are patients at UNC Hospital, and an alternative school. Orange County Schools serves more than 7,000 students with seven elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools, one of which (Cedar Ridge) offers an International Baccalaureate Diploma. The CHCCS district has the highest average SAT scores (shown in table 10) in the state and its high schools have been sighted in Newsweek magazine’s list of top high schools56. Table 10: 2015 Average SAT Scores Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools 1776 Orange County Schools 1539 North Carolina 1478 United States 1490 Racial Equity Racial equity is the condition that would be achieved if one’s racial identity is no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. Though CHCCS district is often applauded for its high scores and graduation rates, these figures obscure the reality of racial inequity, a reality that for most African American and Latino students means a substantial and persistent gap between educational goals and results. The mission of CHCCS is “to ensure that all students acquire the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to achieve their learning potential.”