The table shows how many high school students in a US school district speaked different languages at home in 2008 and 2014. Spanish was the most common, while languages like Chinese and Arabic grew a lot. Overall, more students speak different languages in 2014 than in 2008.
Spanish was the top language, with numbers doubled from 15,110 to 28,816 students. Chinese and Arabic also grew fast—Chinese went from 1,875 to 4,6700, and Arabic jumped from 430 to 1,302. Russian and Tagalog also increased a lot. However, Korean and Vietnamese decreasing, with Korean dropping from 3,029 to 2,735 and Vietnamese falling from 2,557 to 1,460.
Some languages had small changes. Hindi grew a little (375 to 430), and Nepalese grew a lot (95 to 430). Polish was the only language that increase slightly (110 to 82). Even though these groups were small, their changes show that the district became more diverse over time.
