A New Majority Research Bulletin: Low Income Students Now a Majority in the Nation's Public Schools
2015-Low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools, according to this research bulletin. The latest data collected from the states by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), show that 51 percent of the students across the nation’s public schools were low income in 2013.
In 40 of the 50 states, low income students comprised no less than 40 percent of all public schoolchildren. In 21 states, children eligible for free or reduced-price lunches were a majority of the students in 2013.Most of the states with a majority of low income students are found in the South and the West. Thirteen of the 21 states with a majority of low income students in 2013 were located in the South, and six of the other 21 states were in the West.
Mississippi led the nation with the highest rate: 71 percent, almost three out of every four public school children in Mississippi, were low-income. The nation’s second highest rate was found in New Mexico, where 68 percent of all public school students were low income in 2013.
This
defining moment in America’s public education has been developing over
several decades, and SEF has documented the trends and implications in
two prior reports. In its 2013 report, SEF Vice President Steve Suitts
wrote: “No longer can we consider the problems and needs of low income
students simply a matter of fairness… Their success or failure in the
public schools will determine the entire body of human capital and
educational potential that the nation will possess in the future.
Without improving the educational support that the nation provides its
low income students – students with the largest needs and usually with
the least support -- the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a
nation not at risk, but a nation in decline…" Download the research bulletin and map.
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