Mr. Lukas's documents are of a school of the past; the building that housed the school as of 1907, on 22nd and Lexington, is now the School of the Future.
The bodies of those killed were still in the school as of 10 p.m. Friday.
Nationally, whites accounted for 58.8 percent of all school enrollment in 2009, Mr. Frey said, citing the new data, which measured enrollment from preschool to graduate school as of October 2009.
Likely motivated by a deep-seated sense of irony, support for the campaign rapidly accelerated with more than 49,000 people voting for the Boston school as of Friday afternoon.
Such students — more than a quarter of the 580 at the school as of last week — are excluded from all aspects of extracurricular life, including athletic contests, academic clubs, dances and plays, unless they demonstrate improvement on weekly progress reports filled out by their teachers.
The new report, using data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, found that a record 84.9percentt of 18- to 24-year-olds had completed high school as of October 2008, up a full percentage point from the previous year.
