Statistics

Latino Children in New York City

• Latino children account for 33.4% of all children in New York City. (1)
  
  
• 32% of children under the age of five are Latino. (2)
  
  
• During the 2004-2005 school year, 38.9% of all students enrolled in public schools were Latino. Other public school enrollment rates: 33.4% of students were African-American, 14.3% were white, and 13.3% were Asian. (Race and ethnicity are exclusive categories.) (1)
  
  
• 15,788 public school kindergarten students are English Language Learners. Representing 68% of the total, Spanish-speaking students are the majority. (3)
  
  
• 37% of children in city-run Head Start programs come from homes where Spanish is the primary language spoken. (4)
  
  
• In 2005, 34.8% of Latino children met state and city reading standards and 41.3% met math standards. (1)
  
  
• 50.8% of Latino high school students graduate in four years. This is the lowest rate of any ethnic group in the city. (5)
  
  
• English Language Learners who never become proficient in English have a four-year graduation rate of 26.2%. (3)
  
  
• The dropout rate for Latino students was 19.1% for the class of 2006 (a decrease from 25.9% for the class of 2001). This rate was the highest among the large racial/ethnic groups. Other dropout rates: 15.0% of African-American, 9.3% white, and 8.8% Asian students in the same class dropped out of high school. (Race and ethnicity are exclusive categories.) (1)
  
  

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