Minority enrollment accounts for 42 percent of students in U.S. public schools

June 1, 2007
Numbers of Hispanic students have risen dramatically in the last three decades.

Driven mainly by an extraordinary influx of Hispanics, the nation’s population of minority students has surged to 42 percent of U.S. public school enrollment, up from 22 percent three decades ago. The most pronounced development in school demographics has been in Hispanic growth. Hispanic students accounted for just 6 percent of public school enrollment in 1972, but by 2005 their numbers had grown to 20 percent.

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