minority students, visit the DataQuest Web site at http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest and look for reports related to English learners. 86
Number of English Learner Students in California Public Schools, 2001-02 Through 2005-06 Language 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 Percent increase between 2001-02 and 2005-06 Albanian 119 140 163 150 119 0.00 Arabic 7,876 7,646 7,556 7,751 7,545 4.39 Armenian 8,655 9,698 10,660 11,727 11,946 -27.55 Assyrian 595 650 656 706 791 -24.78 Bengali 474 381 N/A N/A N/A N/A Bosnian N/A N/A 264 247 253 N/A Burmese 456 422 432 536 562 -18.86 Cantonese 22,756 22,475 22,867 24,004 24,945 -8.78 Cebuano (Visayan) 445 395 389 417 545 -18.35 Chaldean 541 543 649 668 638 -15.20 Chamorro (Guamanian) 44 41 48 64 59 -25.42 Chaozhou (Chaochow) 568 589 573 696 754 -24.67 Croatian N/A N/A 181 159 185 N/A Dutch 185 184 152 163 196 -5.61 Farsi (Persian) 5,442 5,565 5,650 5,643 5,558 -2.09 Filipino (Pilipino or Tagalog) 20,556 20,939 20,895 20,650 19,813 8.33 French 1,022 1,007 962 1,023 980 4.29 German 643 625 639 708 829 -22.44 Greek 162 173 187 204 214 -24.30 Gujarati 1,123 1,175 1,153 1,155 1,132 -0.80 Hebrew 957 1,004 948 902 784 22.07 Hindi 3,859 3,994 4,172 4,251 4,548 -15.15 Hmong 21,907 22,776 23,423 25,199 26,801 -18.26 Hungarian 179 195 178 191 203 -11.82 Ilocano 1,208 1,296 1,387 1,730 1,572 -23.16 Indonesian 1,049 1,002 1,043 1,186 1,234 -14.99 Italian 305 288 290 294 288 5.90 Japanese 4,673 4,582 4,764 4,814 5,122 -8.77 Khmer (Cambodian) 8,469 9,563 10,011 11,360 13,475 -37.14 Khmu 127 137 160 155 172 -26.16 Korean 16,091 16,463 17,132 17,627 18,002 -10.62 Kurdish (Kurdi, Kurmanji) 316 324 332 351 331 -4.53 Lahu 299 311 357 386 452 -33.85 Lao 3,710 4,055 4,573 5,120 5,745 -35.40 Mandarin (Putonghua) 12,452 11,825 11,347 12,105 11,793 5.59 Marshallese 132 122 126 128 111 18.92 Mien (Yao) 2,101 2,443 2,837 3,429 3,947 -46.77 Mixteco 743 720 666 603 500 48.60 Pashto 796 762 732 717 697 14.20 Polish 290 281 296 323 352 -17.61 Portuguese 2,020 2,096 2,021 2,267 2,383 -15.23 Punjabi 9,138 9,259 8,977 8,751 8,914 2.51 Rumanian 1,019 1,078 1,208 1,057 1,204 -15.37 Russian 7,547 7,678 7,654 7,980 7,977 -5.39 Samoan 1,479 1,648 1,574 1,676 1,748 -15.39 Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croation, Serbian) 562 663 249 349 363 54.82 Somali 999 928 N/A N/A N/A N/A Spanish 1,341,369 1,357,778 1,359,792 1,348,934 1,302,383 3.00 Taiwanese 277 299 301 316 334 -17.07 Thai 1,430 1,417 1,535 1,657 1,643 -12.96 Tigrinya 414 393 356 348 371 11.59 Toishanese 202 244 250 272 240 -15.83 Tongan 1,672 1,678 1,716 1,801 1,984 -15.73 Turkish 318 298 280 269 275 15.64 Ukrainian 2,464 2,548 2,391 2,477 2,364 4.23 Urdu 2,558 2,587 2,620 2,753 2,797 -8.54 Vietnamese 34,263 34,333 34,444 36,574 37,797 -9.35 Other non-English languages 11,368 11,809 14,317 14,519 13,278 -14.16 State totals 1,570,424 1,591,525 1,598,535 1,599,542 1,559,248 0.78 Source: Language Census, March 2006, Educational Demographics Note: The term English learner (EL) has replaced the term limited-English-proficient (LEP). 87