Birmingham also has the greatest number of schools with no white pupils [GETTY IMAGES/PIC POSED BY MODELS]

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The biggest ethnic group among students in the city is Asians, followed by whites and then blacks. Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city, also has the greatest number of schools, 22 in all, with no white pupils. The second highest concentration is in ­Oldham, where eightschools have no white pupils. At one school in Birmingham, students speak 31 languages. All the teachers at English Martyrs, in Sparkhill, specialise in English as a second language and the school employs translators.

Nearly a quarter of Birmingham's residents come from abroad [GETTY IMAGES/PIC POSED BY MODELS]

If there are few children of the host community in a school, the prospects of integration are limited Alp Mehmet

The figures, gleaned from Government statistics, are in a report by West Midlands Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Sharon Rowe for Birmingham Community Safety Partnership. It shows that after a huge influx of migrants, nearly a quarter of the city’s residents come from abroad. Asians are the biggest ethnic group in schools, with 13,248 pupils, or 44 per cent. Just 31 per cent, 9,337 youngsters, were classed as white, while black students totalled 3,859 (13 per cent). In total there were 31,737 pupils from 87 separate ethnic groups in Birmingham’s schools in 2011, but the report did not contain racial data for all. The children spoke a total of 108 languages at home, with English being the most common, followed by the Asian tongues Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali, and then Somali. Campaigners say the figures show the full impact of the former Labour government’s “open door” immigration policy.

Over 108 languages are spoken at home by Birmingham school children [GETTY IMAGES]