Some time ago I discovered London Datastore, a governmental data repository publishing a wide variety of interesting data sets. One of the data sets that drew my attention was describing the composition of the school population in England by first language. Being a non-native English speaker myself, I decided to see whether I could see any interesting patterns and to create a set of choropleth maps.

These maps show that the higher percentage of primary and secondary schools pupils, whose first language is English, tend to occur in the outer London boroughs, e.g. Havering, Bexley, and Bromley. On the other hand, larger percentage of pupils, whose first language is not English, can be found in boroughs in East London (with Tower Hamlets and Newham having especially large percentage).