segregation can also occur at the schoollevel through schools circumventing mandated school choice practices by mainly advertising to certain groups of highachieving students as well as building schools in areas that are typically homogenous and highachieving bohlmark holmlund and lindahl furthermore many researchers conclude that school choosers students or parentsguardians select schools on the basis of race ethnicity and class in addition to rational objective measures of school quality voyer ii with immigr ant parents tending to choose schools for different reasons than native parents evidence on the criteria indicates that parents from a lowerincome background prefer schools that are close to where they live allen reay and allen