The Center for Immigration Studies has released a major study of the impact of immigration, legal and illegal, on the 2,351 separate areas of the U.S. called Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) by the Census Bureau.
Each PUMA contains, on average, about seven high schools, providing a relatively detailed look at immigration’s effects around the country. Some of the report’s findings include:
- 11 million public school students (nearly one-fourth of the total) in 2021 were from immigrant-headed households.
- Immigrant households have more children in public schools than non-immigrant: every 100 immigrant households supplies about 55 public school students to public schools; compared to 33 per hundred in households headed by the U.S.-born.
- CIS estimates that about 29 percent (3.2 million) of public school students from immigrant households were from households headed by an illegal immigrant.
- The impact of immigration on schools tends to be concentrated; just 700 of the nation’s 2,351 Census Bureau-designated PUMAs account for two-thirds (seven million) of students from immigrant households; these same PUMAs account for just over one-third of total public school enrollment.
The report comes with a map of all PUMAs and statistics pertaining to entire states as well as the more granular PUMA stats.
For more, see CIS.org.