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30 therefore will not be able to access services provided in English only is critical. In San Leandro, more than half of the roughly 21,500 people who speak Asian or Pacific Island languages, and half of the estimated 16,800 who speak Spanish at home, speak English less than very well. Table 3: Non-English Languages Spoken at Home among San Leandro Residents, 2010-14 Language Spoken at Home Estimated Number of Language Speakers Speak English Very Well Speak English Less than Very Well Spanish 16,780 50% 50% Other Indo-European languages 3,123 62% 38% Asian and Pacific Island languages 21,478 43% 57% Other languages 607 79% 21% Source: US Census Bureau. (2015). American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for 2010-2014. Data about the languages spoken at home by San Leandro Unified School District students who speak a language other than English at home gives an idea of the specific languages encompassed in the broad language categories in the table above. More than half of the District’s students (53%) spoke a language other than English at home. The table below lists the home languages spoken by at least 10 students. (Smaller numbers of students spoke at least 23 additional languages in 2014- 15.) Table 4: Most Common Home Languages of English Learner and Fluent English Proficient Students in San Leandro Unified School District (2014-15) Language Number of Students Spanish 2,914 Cantonese 564 Filipino (Pilipino or Tagalog) 348 Vietnamese 307 Other non-English languages 105 Arabic 84 Mandarin (Putonghua) 50 Punjabi 30 Khmer (Cambodian) 25 Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) 15 Hindi 13 Portuguese 12 Samoan 10 Source: California Department of Education, DataQuest.