2025 Georgia Latino Education Summit report

The 2025 Georgia Latino Education Summit (GLES) report from the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) focuses on Latino K-12 public school students in Georgia for a simple reason: Georgia demographics have shifted considerably in the past 25+ years. Georgia’s K-12 public school system became “majority-minority” in terms of race/ethnicity in 2005. The Latino school aged population has grown exponentially yet insufficient attention has been focused on how Latino youth have performed academically in K-12 schools, especially in the context of COVID.

This report, “The State of Latino K-12 Education in Georgia: Pre- and Post-COVID (2014-24),” provides an objective, data driven 10-year longitudinal state and district level analysis (2014-24) of Georgia’s Latino K-12 enrollment and achievement to better understand their academic performance.

The 2025 GLES report is intended for all audiences, but particularly for Georgia residents including parents, educational leaders (teachers, principals, superintendents, and school boards), civic leaders (political/non-political), community organizations, and higher education professionals (administrators, faculty, and staff). We hope this report is shared widely and used to inform and enhance the education of all students, in particular Latino students in Georgia. We believe that if Latino students do well, all students will do well, and all of Georgia will benefit.