Using six waves of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and an IV-FE strategy, I use recent variations in the proportion of immigrant students across European countries to ask the following questions: How does attending school with more immigrant peers affect native-born student test scores, and change self-reported attitudes towards school and immigration? I find that as native-born students attend school with more than 1% PISA-sampled immigrants (9% immigrant students on average), their Math, Science, and Reading test scores decrease by approximately 4-6%. Potentially stronger effects are observed in countries less open to immigration, and when redefining immigrant presence as the presence of peers who have immigrated within 5 years. While the academic effect is negative, native self-reported feelings of school belonging are unaffected, and there is evidence that native-born students exposed to immigrant peers report 5-10% more positive attitudes towards immigration.
