The aim of this report is to provide context about the NYC Department of Education's (DOE) English Language Learners (ELLs) students. The data provided is based on the Bilingual Education Student Information Survey (BESIS). Just over 41% of the students enrolled in New York City public schools speak a language other than English at home. That means that there are 438,131 students living in households where English is not the primary language spoken. ELLs make up 14.4% of the entire Department of Education (DOE) student population, as there are 159,162 ELLs enrolled in the school system. The DOE has slightly more male than female ELLs, as 88,567 or 55.6% of our ELLs are male. Nearly half (47.5%) of the DOE's ELLs were born in another country. Data compiled evidences that the largest portion of these students moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic (30.8% of foreign-born ELLs, or 22,804 students). The remaining majority of ELLs born abroad came to the U.S. from China (16.4%, 12,137 students), Mexico (6.8%, 5,041), Bangladesh (5.0%, 3,719), Ecuador (4.7%, 3,471) and Haiti (4.7%, 3,463).