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Our School Community - EAL & Racial Equity

We have a wonderfully diverse school community. 41% of our pupils are from a minority ethnic background. Nationally, 37.4% of primary school pupils are from a minority ethnic background.

If a language is spoken at home which is not English, then these pupils are recorded as having 'English as an Additional Language' (EAL).  We currently have 33.7% of our pupils recorded as having EAL. Nationally,  22.8% of primary school pupils were recorded as having a first language known or believed to be other than English.

Our pupils and parents in our school community speak the following 29 languages:

Arabic Dari Persian Hindi Kurdish Persian/Farsi Thai
Azerbaijani Ebira Hungarian  Malayalam Russian Tulu
Bengali French Igbo Marathi Spanish; Castilian Ukrainian
Chinese Gujarati Italian  Nepali Tamil Urdu
Czech Hebrew Kannada Panjabi Telugu