There were 49 million public school students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve in Fall 2020.

It is also important to note that many school districts remain quite segregated by race and class within the United States. This is despite the fact that the country, as a whole, continues to become more diverse in terms of race and ethnicity. As of 2020, the racial breakdown of the student population in US high schools was the following:

• 22.6 million White students
• 13.8 million Hispanic students
• 7.4 million Black students
• 2.7 million Asian students
• 2.2 million students of two or more races
• 0.5 million Indigenous peoples of America / Alaska Native students
• 0.2 million Pacific Islander students