- Latinos in Preschool
- Latinos in Elementary School
- Latinos in Secondary School
- Latinos
in College
- Hispanic
Diaspora
Latinos in School: Some Facts
and Findings
LATINOS
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- The enrollment
of Latinos in elementary schools increased 157 percent between 1978
and 1998. Latinos comprise 15 percent of the elementary school-age population.
- Nearly
50 percent of Latinos attend urban schools. They comprise one-quarter
of the student population in central city schools.
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Latino students attend schools with more than twice as many poor classmates as those attended by Anglo students: 46 percent compared with 19 percent.
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Disparities between Latino students and others begin as early as kindergarten and remain through age 17. Latinos perform below their non-Hispanic peers in reading, mathematics, and science proficiency by age 9. Overall, they consistently perform below the national average in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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Latinos comprise three-quarters of all students enrolled in Limited English Proficient (LEP) programs, although not all Latino students have limited English proficiency.
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Fewer Latinos than other students have access to a computer at home or school, despite the fact that computers are an essential tool: 68 percent use a computer at school (compared with 70 percent of African Americans and 84 percent of Anglos), and only 18 percent use one at home (compared with 19 percent of African Americans and 52 percent of Anglos).
SOURCE
Latinos in education: Early childhood, elementary, secondary, undergraduate,
graduate. (1999). Washington, DC: The White House Initiative on Educational
Excellence for Hispanic Americans. (ED 440 817) ERIC Clearinghouse on
Urban Education Publication Date: 2001-02-00
