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Diversity in the Classroom

Immigration’s impact is often first seen in the classroom. The increasing diversity of the nation’s education system is the most detailed measure of where immigrants have settled in recent years. View demographic changes in more than 17,000 school districts across the nation — including your own.

United States

Fueled by the latest wave of immigration, enrollment of Hispanic and Asian students in American schools has increased by more than 5 million since the 1990s. The increases are occurring not just in long-time immigration hotbeds, but in places as far flung as Sevier County, Arkansas to Colfax County, Nebraska, to Marion County, Oregon.

Students, in 2006 48,504,876
White 27,394,435 56%
Black 8,288,264 17%
Hispanic 9,950,245 21%
Asian 2,282,149 5%
Native American 589,783 1%
Diversity Index The percent chance that two students selected at random would be members of a different ethnic group. Higher numbers indicate a more diverse student body.
In 2006 61%
In 1993 52%

Student Demographics

United States

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Most-Diverse States

  1. Nevada
  2. Florida
  3. California
  4. New York
  5. Texas

Most-Diverse Districts

,2009/03/11

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics