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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).
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