New Pew Hispanic Center report--One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: lmresearch at lmri.ucsb.edu



 UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute



One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students

by Rick Fry and Felisa Gonzales

The number of Hispanic students in the nation's public schools nearly
doubled from 1990 to 2006, accounting for 60% of the total growth in
public school enrollments over that period. There are now
approximately 10 million Hispanic students in the nation's public
kindergartens and its elementary and high schools; they make up about
one-in-five public school students in the United States. In 1990, just
one-in-eight public school students were Hispanic.

Strong growth in Hispanic enrollment is expected to continue for
decades, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau
population projection. The bureau projects that the Hispanic
school-age population will increase by 166% by 2050 (to 28 million
from 11 million in 2006), while the non-Hispanic school-age population
will grow by just 4% (to 45 million from 43 million) over this same
period.1 In 2050, there will be more school-age Hispanic children than
school-age non-Hispanic white children.

Using data from the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS), this report
presents information on the demographic characteristics of Hispanic
students in public schools. It compares Hispanic public school
students with their non-Hispanic counterparts. The large sample sizes
available in the ACS also enable detailed comparison of Hispanic
students across generational groups.

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http://lmri.ucsb.edu/publications/researchreports.php


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