School Composition and Hispanic Achievement

  • The Texas data does not support a conclusion that Hispanic concentration harms Hispanic achievement to a significant degree.
  • After controlling for socioeconomic status, the cross-sectional relationship between Hispanic concentration and achievement is either positive or very small in most states with appreciable numbers of Hispanic students.
  • The study finds no significant negative relationship between Hispanic concentration and Hispanic math or reading achievement among those states with the largest Hispanic student.
  • Hispanic achievement trends in predominantly Hispanic schools are not much different from the trends in majority White schools as opposed to predominantly White schools.
  • The fixed effect regression analyses with lagged achievement show no statistically significant adverse impacts of Hispanic concentration on either math or reading scores in Texas.