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Dual Language Learners in Santa Clara County

In an article by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (published in May 2017) I found DLL data information for the state of California but not specifically for Santa Clara County. It says, "About 60% of households in California with children ages 0-5 speak a language other than or in addition to English in the home." Language spoken in the home, 47% English & Spanish, 24% Spanish only, English and Asian language other than Chinese 9.2%, Chinese only 1.6% Vietnamese only 0.9%, other Asian language 1.5%.

English language learners in Santa Clara County

I found more information is available for ELL from school districts. From www.kidsdata.org I was able to found year 2016 ELL information that top 10 language spoken at home are Arabic 381, Cantonese 902, Filipino 1,815, Hmong 14,Korean 928, Mandarin 2,773, Punjabi 654, Russian 664, Spanish 41,663, Vietnamese 7,069, All Other Non-English Languages 7,280.

https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/Early-Learning-and-Care-Context-for-Dual-Language-Learners-California-Brief-508-FINAL-Jan-2020.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8a6f/c914e3c1bdf1cbbeea81ccbe143e434d4e18.pdf?_ga=2.219390618.240938375.1572703938-1359099079.1572703938

https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/45/languages-top10/table#fmt=474&loc=59,2&tf=88&ch=106,100,736,737,107,738,104,112,99,102,734&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc

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Dual Language Learners Statistics in Santa Clara County.

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Dual Language Learners Statistics in Santa Clara County.

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Acoording to kidsdata.org spotlight on key indicators demographics .
0-5 females 33,210 and male 36,004 in total 69,214.
3-5 females 36,357 and male 38,686 in total 75,043
Also according to First 5 California DLL Pilot Study CA is home to more DLL that any other state (park O'Toole & Katsiaficas 2017) nearly 60% ages from birth to 5 years old.

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According to the data collected in 2017-2018 in Santa Clara County a total of a total of 2,664,921 California public school students (English Learners and Fluent English Proficient) speak a language other than English in their homes. In the data collected, the first most used language is Spanish and coming next is Vietnamese. There is total of 14.3% of Spanish speakers and 2.5% of Vietnamese speakers. This number represents 42.8% of the state's public school enrollments. Seeing this data collected, moving forward I see no drastic difference for the years 2020 and moving forward.

Source:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/cefelfacts.asp

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According to the California Department of Education, 41.8% of public school students "speak a language other than English in their homes" and may be categorized as either English Learners or Fluent English proficient. Interestingly, over 70% of these students are in elementary grades.

In Santa Clara County, 53.5% of students speak a language in addition to English, and in Franklin McKinley school district that is 74.4% of students.

Meeting the needs of ELs/DLLs clearly needs to be a focus of the professional development of any educators working in this areas, as they represent such an important part of our student population.

References:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/cefelfacts.asp
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/longtermel/ELASLevels.aspx?cds=43&agglevel=County&year=2019-20

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"About 60% of households in CA with young children, birth to 5, speak a language other than English" (Holtby, Lordi, Park and Ponce, 2017)

"In the year 2015-16 there were 33,495 students enrolled in EL in CA Elementary Public School Districts" (QuickQuest)

"In 2018-19 the percentage of children who's primary language was other than English, in Early Head Start, was 51% and in Head Start 58%" (Head Start 2018-19 Annual Report)

"In 2016, one in three (33%) U.S children, birth to age 17, lived in a household where a language other than English is spoken." (Childtrends.org)

"In 2018-19, 21.85% of children enrolled in Kinder were English Learners and 30.64% were Fluent English Proficient" (Data Quest)

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Local Statistics for DLLs and ELs(Bhavani M.)

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Local Statistics for DLLs and ELs(Bhavani M.)

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According to Santa Clara county 2019 the students entering kindergarten top two English Language learners are Spanish (63.45%) and Vietnamese(10.42%). More than  56 primary  languages are reported in Santa Clara county other than English  who enrolled in Kindergarten 2019 in Santa Clara County.
References:
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/SpringData/StudentsByLanguage.aspx?Level=County&TheYear=2019-20&SubGroup=All&ShortYear=1920&GenderGroup=B&CDSCode=43000000000000&RecordType=EL

https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/347/english-learner-status/table#fmt=488&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=88&ch=740,739,741

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According to English learners in Public School report 2016, Santa Clara County has English Learner (Spanish)  15.2%  and (other Language) 8.2%. I temporarily haven't found the latest update figure. However, California represents one of the most diverse states in the nation. While nationally, DLLs make up about 30% of children birth to age 5 estimates in California are almost double, meaning California State accounts for about 60% of Dual Language Learners under 5 years old.

References:
Edsource.org
kidsdata.org
Caloforniadllstudy.org
air.org

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Local Statstics        for DLLs & ELs      (Cohort 2) 

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Local Statstics        for DLLs & ELs      (Cohort 2) 

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This website includes summary statistics for all school districts in the county.  The English Learners in San Mateo, and it is interesting that from this data, "English learner counts do not include 405,018 students from 413 districts and independently reporting charters that did not certify their EL data." Why? did 413 Charter schools not report EL students? I was trying to find information to why charter schools wouldn't participate and lending the data out, but I did come across a website, "https://edsource.org/wp-content/publications/CharterSchools04.pdf on page 16 under the heading "Base funding for charter schools provides a set amount per pupil" stated, "In addition, charter schools receive about $111 for each student they serve who is identified as an English learner or eligible for
free/reduced price meals. Schools
receive double funding for each
pupil who is both poor and an
English learner." I found this interesting because why are so many children not accounted for as EL's. If I ever come across the answer I can definitley share if anyone is interested.

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Fiscal, Demographic, and Performance Data on California's K-12 Schools

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According to the 2018 Santa Clara County Child Care Needs Assessment, the two most common primary languages of English Learners (ELs) were Spanish and Vietnamese among students in grades K-12.  The county wide assessment data shows that there were 69,526 Spanish ELs and 19,486 Vietnamese ELs during the 2016-2017 academic year.  Similarly, Spanish (44%) and Vietnamese (44%) are the two most common native languages spoken among students in Cottonwood 2 at Educare Silicon Valley during the 2019-2020 academic year.