Last Year's Statistics here.

Enrollments and Language (3 Charts)

The number of non-English speaking students continues to grow throughout the region (Chart 1 of 3).

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• The number of non-English speaking students has increased by more than 280,000 since 1990.
• The number of non-English speaking students has increased almost 25 percent since 1990.

Growth of the proportion of non-English speaking students in the region has leveled off (Chart 2 of 3).

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• Though the numbers of non-English speaking students has continued to grow since 1990, their proportion of all students in the region now remains stable at about 30 percent.
• The proportion of students in Los Angeles Unified School District who are not English speaking has dropped since 1994, from 47 to 42 percent.
• The proportion of the region's students outside Los Angeles County who are not English speaking has increased steadily since 1990, from 17 to 24 percent.

A small proportion of non-English speaking students are being redesignated as fluent in English each year (Chart 3 of 3).

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Last Updated: January 15, 2004