On Advanced Placement, about 54% of Asian students in grades 10–12 took an AP exam in 2025, compared with 20% of white students, 19% of Latino students, and 12% of Black students.

93% of Asian students attend high schools offering five or more AP courses, versus 76% of white, 82% of Hispanic, 75% of Black, and just 49% of Native American students.

India is the Asian country with the highest educational attainment. Among first generation Indian immigrants 43% have a post-graduate degree, compared to 24% for all Asian Americans and 13% for all Americans.

Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean immigration has skewed heavily toward students and skilled workers, while Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese communities arrived largely as refugees after 1975 with very lesser starting resources. Hmong and Cambodian first generation immigrants had high school graduation rates of under 25%.

Today 45% of Hmong adults haven’t graduated high school—the highest share among all 40-plus subgroups—and about 40% of Cambodians and Laotians haven’t finished.