{"id":15982,"date":"2014-08-26T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-schools-to-have-non-white-majority\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:17:44","slug":"us-schools-to-have-non-white-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-schools-to-have-non-white-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"US Schools to Have Non-White Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{White pupils in state schools in the United States are set to be in the minority for the first time when schools return for the new term.}}<\/p>\n

According to official forecasts, enrolments for the 2014-15 school year will mark the threshold when ethnic minorities become the majority.<\/p>\n

This demographic shift has been driven by rising numbers of Hispanic pupils.<\/p>\n

Figures are gathered by the US Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.<\/p>\n

It records the number of pupils in the state school system across the United States – and it publishes forecasts of enrolments in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

{{Population shifts}}<\/p>\n

The figures show a steady decline in the numbers of white pupils since the mid-1990s and a broadly stable number of black pupils, but a sharply rising number of pupils identified as Hispanic.<\/p>\n

The school figures show the number of Hispanic pupils has more than doubled over the past two decades and is projected to continue rising in the next decade.<\/p>\n

It means that in autumn 2014 the proportion of white pupils is expected to have fallen marginally below 50% for the first time, with about 26% of pupils Hispanic and 15% black.<\/p>\n

There are also smaller ethnic groups of Asian pupils, native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Fewer than 3% are identified as mixed race.<\/p>\n

The figures show how the increase in the Hispanic population has changed the demography of the school population, rising from 14% of pupils in the mid-1990s and forecast to reach 30% by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n

In the mid-1990s, white pupils represented almost 65% of pupils in the US state school system. The projections show that by the mid-2020s that figure will be about 45%.<\/p>\n

But the Pew Research Center, which analyses public policy and social trends, has highlighted how there is a very different pattern in private schools, with a high proportion of white pupils. About one in 10 pupils attends a private school.<\/p>\n

There have also been questions raised about the use in education of the term ethnic “minority”, when there is no longer a majority ethnic group within the school population.<\/p>\n

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