The rapid demographic shift of American public schools

guno

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The demographic shift in public schools since just the late '90s has been remarkable, driven both by the decline of white enrollment and population growth among U.S.-born Hispanic and Asian children (this is not, Pew points out, a demographic story primarily about immigration). According to Pew's analysis of Census data, the number of U.S.-born Hispanic children aged 5 to 17 in the U.S. nearly doubled between 1997 and 2013.

And this will show up in the general population in just a few short years

The rapid demographic shift of American public schools - The Washington Post
 
So, according to the demographic chart in the OP link, 2014 was the first year where white students were no long the majority of enrollment in public schools, and this year, it looks like 48.4 white to 51.6 non-white. Extrapolated out to 2022, it is then 45.3 white, 54.7 non-white, a more than 10% shift over 2012. By 2028, it is likely, when further extrapolated, to be 41 white, 59 non-white in the public schools.

That's all the data says. Anything else is conjecture.
 

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