In a signal that America is becoming more ethnically diverse, there's been a change amongst the public school demographics. For the first time in history, white non-Hispanic children will not be the majority of students starting school this fall. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), only 49.8 percent of all students in the United States will come from that racial group. 

The next largest group is Latinos at 25 percent of the student population in the country, followed by black children who make up 15 percent, and Asian students represent 5 percent of the minority population what will make up the nation's students this fall.

The vast changes sweeping through the school systems of the U.S. appear to be addressing topics of racial diversity, as well as English language instruction for students who don't speak it at home. 

Census figures show that this trend will only increase over the next 30 years. Minorities are expected to represent the biggest group of U.S. citizens, overtaking the numbers for the white population by 2043. This is due to birth rates; with Hispanic birth rates increasing, and births for white people around the country are staying the same or declining.

As more minorities attend schools that were once mostly white, some areas have reported having a rough time adjusting to more racially diverse classrooms.

A school district in Pennsylvania has been affected by this increasing diversity, as parents have decided to send their kids to private school instead of deal with classrooms that are no longer mostly white, according to the AP. "The changes in the district from mostly middle-to-upper class white [children] to about 40 percent Hispanic [children] was in part driven by workers migrating from Mexico and other countries to work the mushroom farms."

These changes, however, haven't done anything to shrink the so-called education gap between races, as the AP reports. "The disparities are evident even in the youngest of black, Hispanic and Native American children, who on average enter kindergarten academically behind their white and Asian peers. They are more likely to attend failing schools and face harsher school discipline."