Table 204.27.

English language learner (ELL) students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by home language, grade, and selected student characteristics: Selected years, 2008-09 through fall 2018

Home language, grade, and selected student characteristic	Number of ELL students										Percentage distribution of ELL students					Number of ELL students as a percent of enrollment
	2008-091	2009-101	2011-121	2012-13	2013-14	Fall 2014	Fall 2015	Fall 2016	Fall 2017	Fall 20182	Fall 2014	Fall 20153	Fall 2016	Fall 2017	Fall 20182	2008-091	2009-101	2011-121	2012-13	2013-14	Fall 2014	Fall 2015	Fall 2016	Fall 2017	Fall 20182
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Total	4,685,746	4,647,016	4,635,185	4,850,293	4,929,989	4,813,693	4,854,285	4,949,423	5,010,505	5,024,177	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	9.7	9.7	9.6	10.0	10.1	9.8	9.9	10.1	10.2	10.2
30 most commonly reported       home languages of ELL       students3																As a percent of total enrollment
Spanish, Castilian	3,617,597	3,577,649	3,562,860	3,718,047	3,770,816	3,709,828	3,741,066	3,790,949	3,749,314	3,777,926	77.1	77.1	76.6	74.8	75.2	7.5	7.4	7.4	7.7	7.7	7.6	7.6	7.7	7.6	7.7
Arabic	65,278	71,228	86,162	97,971	109,170	109,165	114,371	129,386	136,531	135,870	2.3	2.4	2.6	2.7	2.7	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Chinese	77,240	80,124	96,509	104,799	107,825	104,279	101,347	104,147	106,516	102,834	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
English4	86,390	77,872	85,246	90,703	91,669	83,230	80,333	70,014	94,910	99,521	1.7	1.7	1.4	1.9	2.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
Vietnamese	91,607	93,204	89,536	92,560	89,705	85,289	81,157	78,732	77,765	76,517	1.8	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Somali	26,264	27,771	27,861	30,959	34,472	33,712	36,028	38,440	41,264	40,115	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Russian	34,085	33,349	32,225	33,678	33,821	32,493	33,057	34,843	36,809	38,227	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Portuguese	18,055	15,229	15,725	17,085	19,142	19,839	23,673	28,214	33,252	37,535	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.7	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	0.1	0.1	0.1
Haitian, Haitian Creole	37,074	39,736	39,883	38,768	37,371	31,428	30,231	31,608	32,655	32,833	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Hmong	52,990	49,697	43,845	41,368	39,860	37,412	34,813	33,059	32,174	31,335	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Korean	43,169	39,739	33,704	34,874	32,445	28,530	27,268	26,136	26,531	26,002	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Urdu	20,705	21,213	22,219	22,590	22,499	22,294	22,879	24,668	25,282	25,513	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	0.1	0.1	0.1
French	16,525	18,504	18,849	20,018	20,799	20,275	20,664	22,449	24,052	24,339	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Tagalong	38,849	37,038	32,766	35,395	32,141	28,547	27,277	26,074	25,093	24,149	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	#
Swahili	3,498	4,439	6,011	6,391	7,093	7,065	8,480	11,994	16,099	18,362	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Japanese	16,212	14,582	15,011	16,727	16,591	16,403	16,512	16,884	17,282	18,003	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Bengali	10,700	11,913	14,151	15,294	15,681	14,704	14,435	15,948	16,432	16,763	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Hindi	11,112	11,176	11,625	13,042	13,667	13,586	14,750	15,978	16,415	16,406	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Panjabi, Punjabi	14,262	14,331	14,055	15,622	15,842	15,207	15,630	16,021	16,119	16,153	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Burmese	7,258	9,888	12,321	12,640	13,756	14,382	15,183	16,270	15,189	15,404	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Persian	8,784	8,593	8,396	9,666	9,978	9,642	10,345	11,869	14,052	14,739	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Nepali	3,205	6,283	12,200	14,254	15,331	14,446	14,125	13,810	14,094	14,521	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Karen languages	3,021	4,478	9,576	11,370	12,607	12,585	12,805	13,437	12,836	13,524	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Amharic	5,838	6,950	7,902	9,147	9,400	9,337	9,609	11,161	12,607	13,284	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Telugu	3,486	3,868	5,013	5,716	6,441	7,241	8,466	10,437	11,655	12,980	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Gujarati	9,153	9,491	10,152	10,328	10,463	10,385	10,474	11,058	11,200	11,429	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Central Khmer	14,443	13,465	11,613	11,530	12,584	11,027	10,819	10,364	10,303	9,921	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Ukrainian	8,941	8,736	7,577	7,786	7,756	7,857	8,099	8,741	9,319	9,793	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Polish	11,126	9,061	8,981	9,001	9,203	9,968	9,659	9,670	9,783	9,781	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Marshallese	4,558	4,860	5,748	6,668	6,996	7,086	7,559	8,254	8,920	9,347	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
																As a percent of enrollment by grade or characteristic
Grade
Kindergarten	629,195	615,615	657,391	667,835	667,665	629,013	606,398	600,184	587,543	555,660	13.1	12.5	12.1	11.7	11.1	17.3	16.7	17.5	17.4	17.4	16.7	16.3	16.2	15.9	15.1
Grade 1	621,541	617,599	646,362	665,327	665,612	640,017	621,106	603,824	588,515	571,915	13.3	12.8	12.2	11.7	11.4	16.8	16.6	17.1	17.4	17.1	16.6	16.5	16.3	16.0	15.7
Grade 2	583,025	576,336	585,702	609,804	630,475	614,681	614,809	599,147	574,690	557,799	12.8	12.7	12.1	11.5	11.1	15.8	15.7	15.8	16.4	16.6	15.9	16.0	15.9	15.6	15.3
Grade 3	495,814	511,545	500,032	540,396	558,925	567,131	564,811	576,051	551,257	527,408	11.8	11.6	11.6	11.0	10.5	13.4	13.8	13.5	14.5	15.0	14.9	14.6	14.9	14.6	14.2
Grade 4	406,966	420,145	417,616	428,119	439,529	436,554	461,022	457,476	504,999	494,195	9.1	9.5	9.2	10.1	9.8	11.2	11.4	11.4	11.6	11.9	11.7	12.2	11.9	13.1	13.1
Grade 5	333,975	336,194	338,174	367,088	361,651	364,178	372,817	389,304	400,053	426,310	7.6	7.7	7.9	8.0	8.5	9.2	9.2	9.1	10.0	9.8	9.8	10.0	10.2	10.3	11.0
Grade 6	288,784	277,971	273,457	288,085	293,778	287,798	305,530	318,740	329,313	346,319	6.0	6.3	6.4	6.6	6.9	8.0	7.6	7.3	7.7	8.0	7.8	8.2	8.5	8.6	8.9
Grade 7	263,483	254,830	239,156	255,395	267,416	260,507	267,094	286,261	291,873	308,242	5.4	5.5	5.8	5.8	6.1	7.2	7.0	6.5	6.8	7.1	7.0	7.2	7.6	7.7	8.0
Grade 8	237,269	233,332	214,896	227,844	239,817	242,540	245,574	258,192	265,210	278,688	5.0	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.5	6.4	6.4	5.8	6.2	6.4	6.5	6.6	6.9	7.0	7.4
Grade 9	268,927	258,728	244,266	255,008	261,564	263,081	269,704	286,168	280,408	291,056	5.5	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.8	6.5	6.3	6.2	6.4	6.6	6.5	6.7	7.2	7.0	7.3
Grade 10	218,235	211,691	201,724	202,774	202,377	197,494	214,015	232,687	255,043	251,394	4.1	4.4	4.7	5.1	5.0	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.2	5.6	6.0	6.7	6.5
Grade 11	172,084	175,544	162,804	170,847	168,437	157,395	162,269	183,982	202,429	218,952	3.3	3.3	3.7	4.0	4.4	4.9	5.0	4.6	4.8	4.8	4.4	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0
Grade 12	142,406	148,173	145,444	159,410	161,227	143,189	138,814	146,373	167,145	185,699	3.0	2.9	3.0	3.3	3.7	4.2	4.3	4.2	4.6	4.6	4.1	3.9	4.1	4.6	5.1
Ungraded5	23,489	8,672	8,118	11,783	11,422	10,114	10,218	11,019	11,803	10,014	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	11.5	4.2	6.8	10.0	8.3	7.3	7.5	7.9	8.4	7.5
Race/ethnicity
White	---	---	---	---	---	283,253	294,763	313,996	327,309	331,902	5.9	6.1	6.3	6.6	6.7	---	---	---	---	---	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.4
Black	---	---	---	---	---	172,250	178,141	193,454	210,978	217,959	3.6	3.7	3.9	4.3	4.4	---	---	---	---	---	2.3	2.4	2.6	2.8	2.9
Hispanic	---	---	---	---	---	3,745,646	3,772,633	3,818,918	3,790,626	3,837,314	77.8	77.7	77.2	76.5	77.6	---	---	---	---	---	30.2	29.8	29.5	28.9	28.8
Asian	---	---	---	---	---	516,586	511,703	521,257	530,949	528,727	10.7	10.5	10.5	10.7	10.7	---	---	---	---	---	21.4	20.7	20.7	20.6	20.2
Pacific Islander	---	---	---	---	---	26,614	26,992	27,922	29,865	31,192	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	---	---	---	---	---	15.4	15.6	15.4	16.4	17.1
American Indian/Alaska     Native	---	---	---	---	---	38,081	38,792	39,397	30,423	38,120	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.8	---	---	---	---	---	7.6	7.9	8.0	6.3	8.1
Two or more races	---	---	---	---	---	29,527	31,136	34,382	37,760	38,894	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	---	---	---	---	---	1.9	1.9	1.9	2.0	2.0
Students with     disabilities6	---	---	---	---	---	665,427	713,383	700,927	718,355	766,633	13.8	14.7	14.2	14.3	15.3	---	---	---	---	---	11.4	12.0	11.6	11.6	12.1

---Not available.

#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 The number of ELL students in fall 2018 excludes Vermont data because Vermont did not report by the date this source was extracted. There were a total of 1,687 ELL students in Vermont in fall 2017.

3 Ranking of the 30 most commonly reported home languages is based on fall 2018 data. In each year shown, home language data were unavailable for approximately 87,000 to 133,000 students identified as English language learners. Enrollments of children speaking less common languages are not separately listed.

4 Examples of situations in which English might be reported as an English language 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.

5 Also includes students reported as being enrolled in grade 13.

6 Includes only students with disabilities who were served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Percentage based on all ELL students.

NOTE: Includes all students identified as English language learners--both those participating in ELL programs and those not participating in ELL programs. Except where otherwise noted, data for 2013-14 and earlier years include all ELL students enrolled at any time during the school year. Data exclude Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Bureau of Indian Education. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because grade levels and race/ethnicity 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 September 18, 2020, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); and Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2008-09 through 2018-19. Office of Special Education Programs, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) database, retrieved November 5, 2020, from https://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepidea/618-data/state-level-data-files/index.html#bcc. (This table was prepared November 2020.)