More than 25% of UK students are an ethnic minority

In some areas, only 8 per cent of primary pupils are from a British background . . . for nearly a million, English is a 2nd language


At what point will Britain cease to be Britain?  Mass immigration.  That is the question facing the UK.

More than a quarter of primary school children are from an ethnic minority – an increase of almost half a million since 1997, it emerged yesterday.

The Government’s annual school census painted a picture of a changing Britain where schools are under mounting pressure from mass immigration.


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In some areas, only 8 per cent of primary pupils are from a white British background. Nearly one million children aged five to 16 – 957,490 – speak English as a second language, up from almost 800,000 five years ago.

And 26.5 per cent of primary pupils – 862,735 – are from an ethnic minority. When Labour took office in 1997, the total was 380,954. At secondary level, the total of ethnic minority children – 723,605 – has risen from 17.7 per cent to 22.2 per cent in five years.

The biggest group of ethnic minority pupils were Asians, making up 10 per cent of primary pupils and 8.3 per cent of secondary pupils.

The number from ‘other white backgrounds’ in primaries has almost doubled since 2004 – from 74,500 to 136,880 – reflecting arrivals from Eastern Europe and other new EU member states.

In Manchester, Bradford, Leicester and Nottinghamshire white British primary pupils are in a minority.  And in Luton just 30 per cent are classified as white British.

In some London boroughs, such as Newham, only 8 per cent of children up to the age of 11 are from a white British background.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of think-tank MigrationWatch, said this was an ‘inevitable consequence of Labour’s policy of mass immigration’.

He added: ‘We now have nearly a million schoolchildren whose first language is not English and who consequently need extra attention which can only be at the expense of English-speaking students.


76 LANGUAGES IN ONE SCHOOL
Some 76 languages are spoken at Southfield's Community Colege.  Children at the South
London school speak Mandarin, Arabic, Tigrinya (from Eritrea), Ibo (Nigeria), Twi (Ghana),
and Tagalog (Philippines).  Students come from Kazakhstan, Iraq, Congo, Burma and
Afghanistan.  Many have fled from war zones and some have never attended a school.

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