Question reference: S6W-20900
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 29 August 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 September 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils at Scottish schools currently speak English as a second language.
Answer
There are 66,265 pupils in publicly funded schools in Scotland with English as an additional language, based on the 2022 pupil census.
Statistics on pupils with English as an additional language are published annually in the Pupil Census Supplementary Statistics , table 5.9.