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One in Five Primary School Students Don’t Speak English as a First Language

by Nick Hallett One in Five Primary School Students Don’t Speak English as a First Language Nearly 20 per cent of students currently studying at primary schools in England do not have English as a first language, new figures reveal. Statistics published by the Department for Education show that out of 3,572,108 students in state primary education in England, 693,815 have a first language “known or believed to be other than English” – or 19.4 per cent of the total. The represents a 0.7 per cent increase since January 2014. The data, which was collected in January this year, also… View Article