Workplace raids are visible and disruptive immigration enforcement operations that can result in the detention of hundreds of immigrants at one time. Despite concerns about the impact of raids on children’s well-being, there is limited research on how these tactics affect their academic performance. Using school-level testing data from 2015 to 2019, I compare changes in the performance of Hispanic students in schools close to a workplace raid to white students in the same schools and Hispanic students at control schools. I find exposure to a raid lowered the scores and passing rates of Hispanic students in standardized tests taken 40 days after the operation. I further find that students in schools closer to the raid experienced more pronounced drops in performance, but I do not detect strong evidence that performance decreases were caused by interruptions to schooling. These findings provide new evidence on the spillover effects of workplace raids, underscoring the potential role of immigration enforcement in generating disparities in Hispanic children’s educational outcomes.

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工作场所突袭是一种明显且具有破坏性的移民执法行动，可能会导致数百名移民同时被拘留。尽管人们担心突袭对儿童福祉的影响，但关于这些策略如何影响他们的学业成绩的研究仍然有限。我使用 2015 年至 2019 年的学校水平测试数据，将工作场所突袭附近学校的西班牙裔学生与同一学校的白人学生和对照学校的西班牙裔学生的表现变化进行了比较。我发现，在行动后 40 天进行的标准化考试中，西班牙裔学生的分数和通过率因突袭而降低。我进一步发现，距离突袭较近的学校的学生成绩下降更为明显，但我没有发现强有力的证据表明成绩下降是由学校教育中断造成的。这些发现为工作场所突袭的溢出效应提供了新的证据，强调了移民执法在造成西班牙裔儿童教育成果差异方面的潜在作用。

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