How many DC in your DC's class are multilingual?

[RandomMusing]

Having a chat with a mum at an after school activity got me thinking about the differences in languages between my school and DC's. When I was in primary school, there was one girl in my class who was bilingual. In my DC's Yr 6 class 6/10 girls are bilingual and 5/10 boys, one of whom is trilingual.
How does your child's class compare? I think, from how DC speaks about her lessons, that her class is far more open to learning a new language than ours ever was (could just be a better teacher!).
I'm wondering if it's down to more international mobility than when I was young, or chance. I don't live in the same area as I did growing up but I don't think it's wildly different.

This school, I've no idea. But I'd hazard a guess at not many. Maybe one or 2 per class?
Previous school, I'd guess half the class had English as a second language, and most of the others had a second language, even if not really bilingual.

This is going to depend massively on where you are in the country and even down to the area of the town/city.

At my kids school I would say none are bilingual, or very very few. We're in a SW city. But in other areas of the city you would probably get some but still not many.

At my son's school I only knew of one of his classmates that was bilingual.

The school didn't really offer much in the way of language learning opportunities either.

I had more choice for learning when I was at school but didn't know anyone at all that was bilingual.

London, and I'd say well over 50%.

More homes than not had more than one language spoken in them. Some DC also had proper lessons/tutoring outside school mainly for writing and formal grammar. Total fluency in the spoken language including colloquial slang (and native speaker accent) was normal

I teach in an inner city school. 87% of the children have EAL.

6/30. I suspect it’s higher at the more deprived schools in my area, anecdotally, with English as a second language.

Dunno about the class but in the school there are 21 different nationalities wiyh 15 different langages spoken which surprised me for a small rural town. They are also very good at celebrating all of these different cultures and learn Portugese and Polish from Y1 onwards.

Nearly everybody in my son's class was English/French bilingual. A few spoke languages from nearer india (four I think). One was trilingual. I can only think of two children who spoke only English.

Having said that, the school had fewer languages than previously when we entered. I understand that they previously had more than 80 different languages spoken, which is really a lot for a one form entry school.

DT’s went to a London based international school. There were over 30 languages spoken. DT’s grew up trilingual - English (as we lived in London), my home language and DH’s home language.

All of them! My kids are in Welsh medium
school. Several speak a third language too

Probably close to 50% tbh.

I'm in a small town in the South East and I would say at least 50% of children in DDs' classes are bilingual. Off the top of my head their classmate's parents are from Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Japan, Hong Kong, Romania and Pakistan. There'll be lots of others I don't know.

When I was in school every single child in my primary school was White British (in a rural area) so I'm glad DDs are experiencing more diversity.