STUDENTS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN ORANGE COUNTY

There were 55,159 Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students enrolled in Orange County schools as of March, 1988, the latest information available. LEP students are defined as those for whom English is not their first language and who score higher in their primary language than in English on basic skills assessment tests. Statistics are kept for the top 10 primary languages (other than English) in California. Spanish is far and away the top primary language among LEP students in Orange County, outstripping the second-place Vietnamese by more than a 5-to-1 margin.

PRIMARY LANGUAGES Grade Level Spanish Vietnamese Korean Cambodian Mandarin Kindergarten 5,915 980 207 164 66 1st 5,405 673 170 152 66 2nd 4,184 608 125 116 40 3rd 3,653 480 115 58 39 4th 3,358 434 100 38 37 5th 2,848 357 89 35 44 6th 2,396 391 79 50 35 7th 2,047 363 94 39 57 8th 1,771 440 104 47 64 9th 3,001 664 151 66 52 10th 1,708 638 161 64 66 11th 1,079 612 151 66 85 12th 654 467 114 47 66 Ungraded * 625 31 6 10 2 Total 38,644 7,138 1,666 952 719

Grade Filipino/ All Level Japanese Cantonese Lao Tagalog Portuguese Others Kindergarten 84 57 51 51 4 466 1st 57 55 55 50 2 441 2nd 59 55 64 64 4 382 3rd 47 33 29 33 2 287 4th 40 38 41 47 0 247 5th 42 38 35 35 3 256 6th 40 32 45 33 2 214 7th 40 31 28 33 2 210 8th 36 42 33 26 1 228 9th 32 59 54 36 3 251 10th 42 47 54 39 2 227 11th 43 68 42 28 1 246 12th 42 48 32 27 2 236 Ungraded * 2 1 5 5 1 35 Total 606 604 568 507 29 3,726

* Special education students not in graded classrooms Source: Orange County Department of Education

LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY STUDENTS BY PRIMARY LANGUAGE AND GRADE

% of Total Language Number LEP Students Spanish 38,644 70.1 Vietnamese 7,138 12.9 Korean 1,666 3.0 Cambodian 952 1.7 Mandarin 719 1.3 Japanese 606 1.1 Cantonese 604 1.1 Lao 568 1.0 Filipino/Tagalog 507 1.0 Portuguese 29 * Others 3,726 6.8 TOTAL 55,159 100.0

* Less than 1%

% of Total Grade Number LEP students Kindergarten 8,045 14.6 1st 7,126 12.9 2nd 5,701 10.3 3rd 4,776 8.7 4th 4,380 7.9 5th 3,782 6.9 6th 3,317 6.0 7th 2,944 5.3 8th 2,792 5.1 9th 4,369 7.9 10th 3,048 5.5 11th 2,421 4.4 12th 1,735 3.2 Ungraded + 723 1.3 TOTAL 55,159 100.0

+ Special education students not in graded classrooms

LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY STUDENTS BY DISTRICT

NUMBER OF LEP AS % OF LEP ENROLLED DISTRICT ENROLLMENT March March March March District 1987 1988+ 1987 1988 Orange County Dept. of Education* 52 ---- 3.2 ---- Anaheim City 4,181 4,782 32.7 36.8 Anaheim Union 2,791 2,794 12.4 12.8 Brea-Olinda Unified 257 206 5.8 4.7 Buena Park 352 372 9.5 9.6 Capistrano Unified 722 1,143 3.5 5.2 Centralia 436 517 10.7 12.2 Cypress 156 153 4.6 4.4 Fountain Valley 512 517 8.3 8.5 Fullerton 1,805 1,740 18.5 17.5 Fullerton Joint Union 678 2,261 5.4 18.9 Garden Grove Unified 5,639 6,026 15.5 16.6 Huntington Beach City 223 270 4.2 5.1 Huntington Beach Union 1,077 1,401 6.2 8.5 Irvine Unified 1,044 1,470 5.6 7.5 Laguna Beach Unified 41 35 1.9 1.7 La Habra City 874 805 20.9 18.5 Los Alamitos Unified 163 183 2.7 3.1 Magnolia 495 552 11.4 12.6 Newport-Mesa Unified 1,514 1,514 9.3 9.4 Ocean View 862 853 10.1 10.1 Orange Unified 3,049 3,200 12.4 13.0 Placentia Unified 1,353 1,406 7.9 8.0 Saddleback Valley Unified 406 555 1.9 2.5 Santa Ana Unified 18,947 19,761 50.6 51.8 Savanna 211 234 12.8 13.2 Tustin Unified 429 697 4.3 7.0 Westminster 1,621 1,678 21.9 22.7 Yorba Linda 38 34 2.2 1.9 COUNTY TOTAL 49,928 55,159 14.6 15.7

+ Most recent information available

* The department oversees schools for the severely handicapped

Source: Orange County Department of Education