U.S. School Enrollment Hits Majority-Minority Milestone
Students chat in an 8th grade social studies class at Valley Point Middle School in Dalton, Ga. The
school’s enrollment shifted to a majority of nonwhite students last school year.
—Shawn Poynter for Education Week
August 19, 2014
America's public schools are on the cusp of a new demographic era.
This fall, for the first time, the overall number of Latino, African-American, and Asian students in public K-12 classrooms is expected to surpass the number of non-Hispanic whites.
The new collective majority of minority schoolchildren—projected to be 50.3 percent by the National Center for Education Statistics—is driven largely by dramatic growth in the Latino population and a decline in the white population, and, to a lesser degree, by a steady rise in the number of Asian-Americans. African-American growth has been mostly flat.
That new majority will...
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