Language Research - FLE Maps

National K-12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey and its subsequent Report was designed to collect and analyze K-12 foreign language enrollment data as it currently stands in the United States, where more than 21 percent of households speak a language other than English at home.

K-12 Foreign Education Language Map

A Map of Foreign Language Education in the K-12 System in the United States

The K-12 Foreign Education Language Map is for students, teachers, administrators and policy makers as well as anyone interested in learning about K-12 foreign language education in the United States. The Language Map uses aggregated data from 2014-2015 Comprehensive Survey of US Foreign Language Enrollments: K-12 and Higher Education Project to display K-12 enrollments in languages other than English in the United States.

To view the distribution of schools offering each individual language by state, click here.

Source: American Councils for International Education, American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Center for Applied Linguistics: The National K-12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey (2017)

K-16 Foreign Education Language Map

Source: American Councils for International Education. American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Center for Applied Linguistics, The National K-12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey (2017), and Modern Language Association: Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education (2013)

National K-12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey data may also be accessed at the Asia Society Mapping the Nation website.