The Austin Public Schools board will receive a crash course in district demographics at its upcoming work session Monday.

District officials will give board members an update on the type of student enrolled in Austin. In 2012, Austin schools taught about 1,100 Latino students, or 24 percent of the district’s 4.582-student population. About 377 black students attended Austin schools, as did about 179 Asian students and 11 Native American students, according to Minnesota Department of Education data.

Those numbers are projected to grow, according to a 2009 demographic study. The district is expected to teach several hundred more students by 2020.

Board members will also hear an update on ACT test scores from Austin High School Principal Brad Bergstrom.

ACT scores in Austin dipped this year, though district officials expected the decline as all eligible juniors and many seniors took the ACT in 2012-2013. The district’s average ACT composite score was 20.2, out of a possible score of 36. That puts Austin lower than the state average of 23, and slightly lower than the 20.9 national average.

As a building, Austin High School students on average met the ACT college readiness benchmark in reading. Bergstrom said Tuesday students on average were less than a point away from meeting the English benchmark and one point away from meeting the math benchmark.

“Considering the number of students who took the test overall, we’re very excited with our scores,” Bergstrom said last week.