White British children are minority at one in four schools in England
The report, published on Saturday, was based on the results of school census data collected from more than 21,500 educational institutions across the country in early 2025.
According to the figures, in 72 English schools there are no white children at all, while in 454 schools they make up less than 2% of the pupils.
At Rockwood Academy in Birmingham, none of the 1,084 students were recorded in the census as 'white British,' while there were only 12 out of 2,779 attending Loxford School in the London borough of Redbridge, The Telegraph reported.
The 'demographic shift' is most visible in cities such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, and Leicester, the paper said.
In the capital, white British children are a minority in schools in all 32 boroughs, with the exception of Bromley, where they make up 50.3%. In Newham and Harrow, there are only 5% and 7% of white children, respectively, the report said.
'The school census data demonstrates that the white British share of the young population is in decline in many areas,' The Telegraph noted.
Last week, a report came out forecasting that white British people will become a minority in the UK population in the early 2060s.
According to the paper, which was based on analysis of migration, birth and death rates data, by the end of the century their share will drop from the current 73% to around 33.7%.
The author of the study, Buckingham University Professor Matt Goodwin, said that his predictions raise 'profound questions about the capacity of the UK state to both absorb and manage this scale of demographic change.'
Goodwin stressed that they are certain to provoke a 'considerable degree of anxiety, concern and political opposition' among many voters, which 'need to be… addressed if the UK is to avoid considerable political turbulence and polarization in the years and decades ahead.'
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