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Students Enrolled in LPS K-12 Schools by Race/Ethnicity

Students of color comprise one third of the Lincoln Public Schools K‑12 student population

The relative percentage of students enrolled in K-12 Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) by race/ethnicity has remained relatively steady from school year 2016-2017 through school year 2021-2022. The percentage of students identified as Latino/a/Hispanic or as Two or More Races increased about two percentage points each, while the percentage of students identified as White decreased about four percentage points over that timeframe. Students of color comprise about one third of the LPS K-12 student population. Growing diversity among youth indicates that future diversity within the population of Lincoln overall will continue to increase.

In the 2021-2022 school year:

• 62.9% of the student population identified as White (26,252 students) compared to 77.4% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 15.4% of the student population identified as Latino/a or Hispanic (6,436 students) compared to 8.5% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 9.2% of the student population identified as Two or More Races (3,839 students) compared to 5.6% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 7.0% of the student population identified as Black or African American (2,936 students) compared to 4.2% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 4.8% of the student population identified as Asian (1,987 students) compared to 3.5% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 0.6% of the student population identified as American Indian or Alaska Native (260 students) compared to 0.4% of the overall Lincoln population in 2021.
• 0.1% of the student population identified as Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (37 students).

Notes

Nebraska Department of Education. (2022). Nebraska Education Profile (formerly Nebraska State of Schools Reports). Data does not include students who attend private school or who are home-schooled.

American Indian or Alaskan Native students and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander students each make up less than 1% of student population and are not easily visible in the figure. You can see numbers and percentages of these students by hovering your mouse over the thin blue or purple lines that you may see in the middle of the bars.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2021 ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP05.