Age 7 in America is a 1991 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 that details the lives of 7-year-old Americans from across America, of varying social classes and ethnicities. It is patterned after the Up series of Great Britain.

Lucy, Alexis, and Kate

The girls live in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

's Upper East Side and attend the prestigious Nightingale-Bamford School

Nightingale-Bamford School

The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side, NBS is one of the top ranked private schools in New York City and among one of the...

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Ashtyn

Incredibly Intelligent, pretty, smart, funny, and loveable. NEVER EATS POTATOES....and she is a scrub

LeRoy

LeRoy lives in an apartment building (part of the Robert Taylor housing project

Robert Taylor Homes

Robert Taylor Homes was a housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago, on State Street between Pershing Road and 54th Street alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway.-History:...

) in the South Side of Chicago

South Side (Chicago)

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. He is African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

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Kennisha

Kennisha is LeRoy's classmate and has lived in the housing project all her life. She is also African American.

Douglas, Vicky, and Mike

All three kids live in a traditionally working-class, Polish community in Chicago. They attend a private Catholic school.

Brandon

Brandon lives in a wealthy suburb and is a classmate and friend of Eric. They both go to a prep school on the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

's campus.