Study Finds Fewer Latinos Enrolling in Preschool

Meanwhile, preschool enrollments held steady for blacks and whites

The proportion of Latino 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool declined from 2005 to 2009, though the rates of preschool enrollment for their African-American and white peers stayed the same during that period, according to findings released April 8 by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

The decline in enrollment for Latino youngsters followed a dramatic increase in enrollment for all three groups of children from 1991 to 2005, though Latino enrollment still lagged well behind that of enrollment for black children and white children during that earlier period.

The good news, the study’s researchers write, is that enrollment for black children in preschool caught up with that of their white counterparts by 2005, and both groups...