Washington – Hispanic children are much more likely than white or black students to attend the nation’s largest and poorest public high schools, a new analysis shows.
More than half of Hispanic teens, 56 percent, attend schools with enrollments of roughly 1,800 students. Only 32 percent of black children and 26 percent of white children attend schools that large, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonprofit research group.
At the same time, Hispanics are more likely to be in high schools that have the highest concentrations of poverty and largest ratios of students for every teacher. Hispanics can be of any race, but in this report, the groupings of whites and blacks included no Hispanics.
The figures come from the 2002-03 school year.
