Table 204.27.

English language learner (ELL) students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade and home language: Selected years, 2008-09 through 2013-14

Grade and home language	Number of ELL students					Percentage distribution of ELL students					Number of ELL students as a percentage of total enrollment
	2008-091	2009-101	2011-121	2012-13	2013-14	2008-091	2009-101	2011-121	2012-13	2013-14	2008-091	2009-101	2011-121	2012-13	2013-14
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Total	4,685,746	4,647,016	4,635,185	4,850,293	4,929,989	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	9.7	9.7	9.6	10.0	10.1
Grade
Kindergarten	629,195	615,615	657,391	667,835	667,665	13.4	13.2	14.2	13.8	13.5	17.3	16.7	17.5	17.4	17.4
Grade 1	621,541	617,599	646,362	665,327	665,612	13.3	13.3	13.9	13.7	13.5	16.8	16.6	17.1	17.4	17.1
Grade 2	583,025	576,336	585,702	609,804	630,475	12.4	12.4	12.6	12.6	12.8	15.8	15.7	15.8	16.4	16.6
Grade 3	495,814	511,545	500,032	540,396	558,925	10.6	11.0	10.8	11.1	11.3	13.4	13.8	13.5	14.5	15.0
Grade 4	406,966	420,145	417,616	428,119	439,529	8.7	9.0	9.0	8.8	8.9	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.6	11.9
Grade 5	333,975	336,194	338,174	367,088	361,651	7.1	7.2	7.3	7.6	7.3	9.2	9.2	9.1	10.0	9.8
Grade 6	288,784	277,971	273,457	288,085	293,778	6.2	6.0	5.9	5.9	6.0	8.0	7.6	7.3	7.7	8.0
Grade 7	263,483	254,830	239,156	255,395	267,416	5.6	5.5	5.2	5.3	5.4	7.2	7.0	6.5	6.8	7.1
Grade 8	237,269	233,332	214,896	227,844	239,817	5.1	5.0	4.6	4.7	4.9	6.4	6.4	5.8	6.2	6.4
Grade 9	268,927	258,728	244,266	255,008	261,564	5.7	5.6	5.3	5.3	5.3	6.5	6.3	6.2	6.4	6.6
Grade 10	218,235	211,691	201,724	202,774	202,377	4.7	4.6	4.4	4.2	4.1	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.4	5.4
Grade 11	172,084	175,544	162,804	170,847	168,437	3.7	3.8	3.5	3.5	3.4	4.9	5.0	4.6	4.8	4.8
Grade 12	142,406	148,173	145,444	159,410	161,227	3.0	3.2	3.1	3.3	3.3	4.2	4.3	4.2	4.6	4.6
Ungraded	23,489	8,672	8,118	11,783	11,422	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	11.5	4.2	6.8	10.0	8.3
30 most commonly reported home       languages of ELL students2
Spanish, Castilian	3,617,597	3,577,649	3,562,860	3,718,047	3,770,816	77.2	77.0	76.9	76.7	76.5	7.5	7.4	7.4	7.7	7.7
Arabic	65,278	71,228	86,162	97,971	109,170	1.4	1.5	1.9	2.0	2.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Chinese	77,240	80,124	96,509	104,799	107,825	1.6	1.7	2.1	2.2	2.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
English3	86,390	77,872	85,246	90,703	91,669	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Vietnamese	91,607	93,204	89,536	92,560	89,705	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.9	1.8	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Hmong	52,990	49,697	43,845	41,368	39,860	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Haitian, Haitian Creole	37,074	39,736	39,883	38,768	37,371	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Somali	26,264	27,771	27,861	30,959	34,472	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Russian	34,085	33,349	32,225	33,678	33,821	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Korean	43,169	39,739	33,704	34,874	32,445	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Tagalog	38,849	37,038	32,766	35,395	32,141	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Urdu	20,705	21,213	22,219	22,590	22,499	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	#	#	#	#	#
French	16,525	18,504	18,849	20,018	20,799	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	#	#	#	#	#
Portuguese	18,055	15,229	15,725	17,085	19,142	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	#	#	#	#	#
Japanese	16,212	14,582	15,011	16,727	16,591	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Panjabi, Punjabi	14,262	14,331	14,055	15,622	15,842	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Bengali	10,700	11,913	14,151	15,294	15,681	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Nepali	3,205	6,283	12,200	14,254	15,331	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Burmese	7,258	9,888	12,321	12,640	13,756	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Hindi	11,112	11,176	11,625	13,042	13,667	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Karen languages	3,021	4,478	9,576	11,370	12,607	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Central Khmer	14,443	13,465	11,613	11,530	12,584	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	#	#	#	#	#
Gujarati	9,153	9,491	10,152	10,328	10,463	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Persian	8,784	8,593	8,396	9,666	9,978	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
German	9,605	9,898	9,274	9,190	9,642	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Amharic	5,838	6,950	7,902	9,147	9,400	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Navajo, Navaho	11,333	10,813	9,684	9,614	9,205	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Polish	11,126	9,061	8,981	9,001	9,203	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Armenian	8,150	7,997	7,740	8,511	8,000	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#
Ukrainian	8,941	8,736	7,577	7,786	7,756	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#

#Rounds to zero.

1 Includes data for California that reflect ELL students enrolled on a single date, rather than a cumulative count of all ELL students enrolled at any time during the school year.

2 Ranking of the 30 most commonly reported home languages is based on 2013-14 data. In each year shown, home language data were unavailable for approximately 92,000-133,000 students identified as English language learners. Enrollments of children speaking less common languages are not separately listed.

3 Examples of situations in which English might be reported as an English learner's home language include students who live in multilingual households and students adopted from other countries who speak English at home but also have been raised speaking another language.

NOTE: Includes all students identified as English language learners--both those participating in ELL programs and those not participating in ELL programs. Includes all ELLs enrolled at any time during the school year. Data exclude Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Education. Detail may not sum to totals because grade levels were not reported for some students and because of rounding. 2010-11 not shown due to missing data.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 141, Data Group 678, extracted May 13, 2016, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2008-09 through 2013-14. (This table was prepared May 2016.)