But under the new map the district will drop to 18 percent Latino from 39 percent.
Its 7,000-member student body is 70 percent Latino.
The neighborhood is about 80 percent Latino, 15 percent white and the rest from other ethnicities.
He also cited the diversity of the trainees - 27 percent are black and 9 percent Latino.
The district's population is 5 percent Latino and 3 percent foreign-born.
Today, the neighborhood is more than 60 percent Latino and about 30 percent black.
The school is 70 percent Latino, with most students eligible for free or discounted lunch.
"I'm 100 percent black and 100 percent Latino," he said.
It is estimated that the population of the village is 85 percent Latino.
But from inside the plant, the breakdown appears to be more like 60 percent Latino, 30 percent black, 10 percent white and red.