A lot has changed in the world since 1990, and over the past 18 years, the Latino population has grown exponentially. The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new report titled “One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students” which, as its name suggests, shows that one in every five public school students is Latino.

A majority of Hispanic students — about 75 percent — live in what the study calls “established” Hispanic states: Texas, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In Texas, more than 40 percent of enrollments from 1990 to 2006 were Latino students.

Almost 20 percent of the nation’s Hispanic students — nearly 2 million — live in Texas.

From 1990 to 2008, the Latino public school population grew from 5 million to 9.8 million.

Via / Chron.com