The table shows information about the languages spoken at home by high school students in one school district in the USA in 2008 and 2014.
Overall, Spanish was the most widely spoken language in both years. The number of students speaking Spanish increased significantly. Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Tagalog and Nepalese also became more common, while Korean, Vietnamese and Polish decreased.
In 2008, Spanish was spoken by 15,110 students, which was much higher than any other language. By 2014, this number had almost doubled to 28,816 students. Korean was the second most common language in 2008, with 3,029 students, but this figure fell slightly to 2,735 in 2014. Vietnamese also decreased from 2,557 to 1,467 students.
The number of Chinese-speaking students increased considerably, from 1,875 in 2008 to 4,670 in 2014. There were also significant increases in Arabic and Russian. Arabic rose from 430 to 1,302 students, while Russian grew from 414 to 1,656.
The smaller languages showed mixed changes. Hindi increased slightly from 375 to 430 students, and Tagalog rose from 138 to 512. Nepalese also increased from 95 to 439 students. In contrast, Polish was the only other language to decrease, from 110 students in 2008 to just 82 in 2014.