Table 8.2b. Number and percentage of elementary and secondary school students who spoke a language other than English at home and percentage who spoke English with difficulty, by race/ethnicity with Hispanic and Asian subgroups: 2007

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Table 8.2b.

Number and percentage of elementary and secondary school students who spoke a language other than English at home and percentage who spoke English with difficulty, by race/ethnicity with Hispanic and Asian subgroups: 2007

Race/ethnicity and subgroup	Number who spoke a language other than English at home		Percentage of population who spoke a language other than English at home	Percentage of population who spoke English with difficulty
Total¹		11,008,000			20.6	5.1
White		1,723,000			5.6	1.2
Black	450,000		5.6	1.4
Hispanic	7,231,000		68.9	17.5
Mexican	5,132,000		71.6	19.9
Puerto Rican	474,000		49.5	8.3
Cuban	164,000		70.0	13.2
Dominican	242,000		87.6	17.7
Salvadoran	257,000		86.9	20.5
Other Central American	296,000		78.5	19.1
South American	338,000		78.8	14.5
Other Hispanic or Latino	327,000		42.8	7.7
Asian	1,331,000		64.3	16.8
Asian Indian	257,000		65.9	10.0
Chinese²	315,000		71.3	21.1
Filipino	121,000		34.3	8.2
Japanese	32,000		51.1	21.5
Korean	165,000		74.6	20.6
Vietnamese	212,000		79.5	25.0
Other Asian	228,000		68.7	18.5
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	30,000		36.6	6.7
American Indian/Alaska Native	69,000		16.1	2.5
Two or more races	117,000		7.9	1.2
¹ Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown. ² Excludes Taiwanese. Taiwanese is included in the "Other Asian" category. NOTE: Respondents were asked if each child in the household spoke a language other than English at home. If they answered "yes," they were asked how well each child could speak English. Categories used for reporting were "very well," "well," "not well," and "not at all." All those who reported speaking English less than "very well" were considered to have difficulty speaking English. Includes those students who are age 5 or older. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2007.