31% of families in District 146 call a language other than English their home language. The top three languages spoken are Arabic, Spanish, and Polish. All together, 27  different languages are spoken in District 146.

15% of students in District 146 qualified for EL / Bilingual services.  Of those students, 53% of them speak Arabic, 28% speak Spanish, and the rest (19%) speak another language.

7% of all students in District 146 were born outside of the United States in one of 18 different countries around the world.