Schools: Language Diversity in NSW, 2016
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Schools:
Language Diversity in NSW, 2016
Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation
This bulletin summarises the diversity of students with a language background other than English (LBOTE) who are enrolled in NSW government schools in 2016.
Introduction
In 2016, 66.9 per cent of students who are enrolled in NSW government schools come from homes where English is the only language (see Figure 1). The 2016 collection of language background data shows that about one third (33.1 per cent) of students in NSW government schools come from homes where languages other than English are spoken.
The proportion of LBOTE (see definition on page 11) students rose by 0.8 percentage points from 2015 and 1.6 percentage point from 2014.
Figure 1
Language background of students in NSW government schools in 2016
English speaking
only 66.9%
Languages other than English 33.1%
Figure 2 Top ten language background other than English, 2006-2016
45,000 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000
5,000 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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Chinese Arabic Vietnamese Hindi Greek Filipino/Tagalog Samoan Korean Spanish Italian
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Top ten language backgrounds of LBOTE students in NSW government schools
The largest single language group of LBOTE students in 2016 is Arabic (35,732 students) and the largest combined language group is Chinese, which comprises Mandarin, Cantonese and Other Chinese language backgrounds (42,259), see Figures 2 and 3.
In 2016 the top ten languages represent nearly 60 per cent of all LBOTE students.
Since 2006, the top three language groups have grown significantly, with Chinese growing 15.5 per cent, while Arabic and Vietnamese have grown 37.7 per cent and 22.6 per cent respectively over that period. Hindi has had the largest percentage growth over the period of 45.5 per cent.
Figure 2 shows that the top 10 languages in NSW have not changed since 2006, however the order of the largest language groups has changed. Italian has slipped from the seventh largest language in 2006 to the tenth in 2016, while Hindi has moved from sixth to fourth position.
Figure 3 Language background diversity in NSW government schools, 2016
Other Language Groups, 19,893
Mandarin, 23,862
Cantonese, 15,775
Other Chinese, 2,622
Arabic, 35,732
Vietnamese, 15,709
Hindi, 10,793
Spanish, 7,480 Korean, 8,005
Filipino/Tagalog, 9,241 Greek, 8,920 Samoan, 8,336
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What are the language backgrounds of our students?
There are 226 different language backgrounds of LBOTE students at NSW government schools but only 43 languages have more than 1,000 LBOTE students enrolled. 183 languages are included in the `Other Language Groups'.
After Chinese and Arabic the next largest language background is Vietnamese, followed by Hindi and Filipino/Tagalog. Three European language backgrounds, Greek, Spanish and Italian, also feature in the top ten language backgrounds.
In March 2016, there were 260,599 NSW government primary and secondary students identified as having a language background other than English, which comprises 33.1 per cent of the 786,248 NSW government school students overall.
Table 1
Enrolments of students of language background other than English by language 2015 and 2016 (by largest language groups in 2016).
Language
Chinese: Mandarin Cantonese
Other Chinese Arabic Vietnamese Hindi Filipino/Tagalog Greek Samoan Korean Spanish Italian Urdu Tamil Bengali Tongan Indonesian Punjabi Macedonian Turkish Japanese Assyrian & Chaldean Thai German French Serbian Gujarati Persian (Excluding Dari) Dari Russian Khmer Nepali Maori (New Zealand) Portugese Telugu Malayalam Sinhalese Croatian Fijian Dutch Afrikaans Maori (Cook Island) Marathi Polish Lao Other Language Groups Total
2015
Students
% of Total LBOTE
41,379
16.5%
22,696
9.0%
16,339
6.5%
2,344
0.9%
34,302
13.6%
15,593
6.2%
10,240
4.1%
8,991
3.6%
9,111
3.6%
8,034
3.2%
7,878
3.1%
7,166
2.9%
5,530
2.2%
4,467
1.8%
4,366
1.7%
3,950
1.6%
4,207
1.7%
4,055
1.6%
3,579
1.4%
3,913
1.6%
3,761
1.5%
3,118
1.2%
3,139
1.2%
2,968
1.2%
3,046
1.2%
2,880
1.1%
3,074
1.2%
2,570
1.0%
2,862
1.1%
2,529
1.0%
2,396
1.0%
2,427
1.0%
1,971
0.8%
2,149
0.9%
1,876
0.7%
1,587
0.6%
1,604
0.6%
1,773
0.7%
1,598
0.6%
1,519
0.6%
1,366
0.5%
1,299
0.5%
1,205
0.5%
1,023
0.4%
1,010
0.4%
1,024
0.4%
18,801
7.5%
251,336
100%
2016
Students
% of Total LBOTE
42,259
16.2%
23,862
9.2%
15,775
6.1%
2,622
1.0%
35,732
13.7%
15,709
6.0%
10,793
4.1%
9,241
3.5%
8,920
3.4%
8,336
3.2%
8,005
3.1%
7,480
2.9%
5,408
2.1%
5,006
1.9%
4,696
1.8%
4,451
1.7%
4,264
1.6%
4,164
1.6%
3,992
1.5%
3,846
1.5%
3,717
1.4%
3,273
1.3%
3,229
1.2%
3,140
1.2%
3,096
1.2%
3,037
1.2%
3,029
1.2%
2,968
1.1%
2,908
1.1%
2,646
1.0%
2,577
1.0%
2,501
1.0%
2,279
0.9%
2,163
0.8%
2,047
0.8%
1,904
0.7%
1,783
0.7%
1,761
0.7%
1,616
0.6%
1,529
0.6%
1,401
0.5%
1,356
0.5%
1,194
0.5%
1,130
0.4%
1,111
0.4%
1,009
0.4%
19,893
7.6%
260,599
100%
Notes: 1. The table is ordered by the largest language groups for language groups with 1,000 or more
students in 2016. Language groups with fewer than 1,000 students in 2016 are included in `Other Language Groups'. 2. See the definition of LBOTE on page 11 for the reporting rule used to determine the language background for students from households where multiple languages are spoken. 3. See page 11 for other explanatory notes.
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Where are LBOTE students in NSW?
Map 1 shows the concentration of LBOTE students across NSW, using a geographical structure based on the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). ASGS Statistical Area 4 (SA4) boundaries in New South Wales have been combined into 11 groups for reporting and publication of department data.
As Map 1 illustrates the concentration of students from LBOTE backgrounds is greater in the Sydney metropolitan area than in
other parts of NSW. Across all Sydney schools 52 per cent of the students have a language background other than English.
Sydney-West has the highest LBOTE student enrolment of 53,926 representing 65.5 per cent of all students enrolled. North West NSW has the lowest LBOTE student enrolment of 2,914 representing 4.3 per cent of all students enrolled.
Map 1 LBOTE Percentage of enrolments in a Statistical Area (SA4) grouping, March 2016
North West NSW
North East NSW
South West NSW
LBOTE Percentage of Enrolments
50% or more 30% to 50% 10% to 30% Less than 10%
Central Coast, Newcastle
SydneyNorth West
SydneyWest
South East NSW
Sydney- South West
SydneyNorth
SydneyInner
SydneySouth
Location of LBOTE students from different language backgrounds
Nearly 60 per cent of all LBOTE students are located in SydneyWest, Sydney-South or Sydney-South West. However, there are significant pockets of students from various language backgrounds located in other areas as shown in Table 2. For example, students from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, and French language backgrounds are more likely to be located in Sydney-North, whereas students from Italian, Thai and Russian language backgrounds are more likely to be located in Sydney-Inner.
Many students from Indian language backgrounds are located in Sydney-West, which has the largest proportions of students from Hindi (35.9%), Urdu (35.5%), Tamil (49.5%), Punjabi
(48.5%), and Gujarati (67.5%) language backgrounds. SydneyWest also has the largest proportion of students from Persian (excluding Dari) and Dari language backgrounds.
Sydney-South West contains almost all students from Assyrian and Chaldean (89.7%), Khmer (83.8%) and Lao (79.6%) language backgrounds, plus the largest concentrations of students with Vietnamese (54.3%), Serbian (49.4%) and Samoan (47.9%) language backgrounds.
Sydney-South has the largest proportions of students from Arabic (38.1%), Greek (46.6%), Bengali (28.7%), Indonesian (24.2%) and Macedonian (41.0%) language backgrounds.
The only language background with a significant concentration of students outside the Sydney metropolitan area is Macedonian with 27.2 per cent of these students located in South East NSW.
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Table 2 LBOTE enrolments by language and Statistical Area 4 Groupings and number of language groups - March 2016
Language
Total State LBOTE
As % of Total LBOTE
Chinese:
Mandarin Cantonese Other Chinese Arabic Vietnamese Hindi Filipino/Tagalog Greek Samoan Korean Spanish Italian Urdu Tamil Bengali Tongan Indonesian Punjabi Macedonian Turkish Japanese Assyrian & Chaldean Thai German French Serbian Gujarati Persian Excluding Dari Dari Russian Khmer Nepali Maori (New Zealand) Portuguese Telugu Malayalam Sinhalese Croatian Fijian Dutch Afrikaans Maori (Cook Island) Marathi Polish Lao Other Language Groups
Total LBOTE
No. of different language groups
12,139
7,759 3,989
391 718 573 1,314 890 589
68 3,075 1,022
773 281 473 240 238 604 256
78 163 1,380
16 512 861 1,041 279 217 741 114 548
49 237
82 455 235 239 348 195
56 477 331
24 182 237
30
2,621
35,001
151
7,403
4,354 2,711
338 1,599 1,747
684 736 1,692 114 1,615 1,090 1,230 324 644 651 370 913 138 121 561 593
91 554 517 572 217 135 140
90 740
44 340 133 414 255 158
79 119 120 190
55 88 75 137 17
2,381
29,886
164
7,657
4,016 3,385
256 13,601
2,688 727 936
4,161 760 401 868 616
1,115 148
1,276 550
1,006 214
1,578 362 351 70 430 224 269 266 138 136 100 396 72 607 410 345 73 135 59 227 288 104 96 289 66 126 43
2,245
46,229
165
3,826
1,076 1,779
971 8,447 8,534 2,431 1,143
786 3,993
67 1,949 1,012
669 279 942 1,073 368 343 600 490
79 2,898
392 114 130 1,495
93 228 168 142 2,097 204 373 216 115 274 117 397 325
28 97 204 278 137 803
2,744
51,100
165
6,380
3,664 2,371
345 9,052 1,363 3,874 2,682
489 2,246 1,620
683 313 1,777 2,324 894 1,343 523 1,936
84 1,586
176 85
263 85
191 199 2,004 1,051 1,847 235 106 534 425 143 947 548 488 192 359
55 67 321 361 114 28
3,933
53,926
172
3,323
2,171 1,021
131 928 272 1,269 992 407 531 866 610 406 569 678 249 223 282 536
43 236 150
57 152 227 152 143 250 445 151 202
46 111 157
90 201 258 503 183
54 132 251
49 127 124
16
1,623
18,274
159
129
54 52 23 65 51 45 276 65 37 21 233 110 15
8 9 26 96 264 5 23 189 1 196 325 197 7 11 12 69 42 10 6 100 74 1 12 13 21 32 99 44 6 7 35 8
887
3,882
131
133
62 61 10 114 60 61 376 48 55 15 73 67 47 37 37 28 23 37
3 16 40
4 91 89 65 14 18
7 11 39
1 39 88 47 13 26 23 17 38 51 113 22
7 22
7
792
2,914
127
145
62 55 28 125 35 85 280 63 239 14 100 226 69 28 43 131 20 164 10 37 36
101 74 56 22 41 35 32 42 13
141 97 16 17 20 38 23
137 40 99 78 7 8 25
584
3,596
132
454
266 122
66 836 211 119 436 378 100
81 432 377
73 19 44 113 143 60 1,048 203 114
4 235 306 164 315
27 74 11 69 19 32 165 157 19 56 49 162 42 121 85 94
5 73 21
1,086
8,632
152
670 42,259 16.2%
378 23,862 9.2% 229 15,775 6.1%
63 2,622 1.0% 247 35,732 13.7% 175 15,709 6.0% 184 10,793 4.1% 494 9,241 3.5% 242 8,920 3.4% 193 8,336 3.2% 230 8,005 3.1% 420 7,480 2.9% 278 5,408 2.1%
67 5,006 1.9% 58 4,696 1.8% 66 4,451 1.7% 169 4,264 1.6% 186 4,164 1.6% 44 3,992 1.5% 276 3,846 1.5% 40 3,717 1.4% 165 3,273 1.3%
3 3,229 1.2% 214 3,140 1.2% 274 3,096 1.2% 200 3,037 1.2%
72 3,029 1.2% 34 2,968 1.1% 39 2,908 1.1% 53 2,646 1.0% 122 2,577 1.0% 44 2,501 1.0% 28 2,279 0.9% 133 2,163 0.8% 90 2,047 0.8% 28 1,904 0.7% 57 1,783 0.7% 44 1,761 0.7% 80 1,616 0.6% 78 1,529 0.6% 104 1,401 0.5% 118 1,356 0.5% 19 1,194 0.5% 15 1,130 0.4% 98 1,111 0.4% 11 1,009 0.4%
997 19,893 7.6%
7,159 260,599 100%
144
226
Notes: 1. The table is ordered by the largest language groups for languages with 1,000 or more students in 2016. 2. See page 11 for other explanatory notes.
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