Here’s another one of those stories about that demographic transformation that Newsweek, the BBC, and all the other experts insist isn’t happening.

In Britain, many “public” (in the American sense) primary schools fall under the aegis of the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. But, increasingly, only nominally. Because these days the only children in the neighborhood are of, ah, other persuasions:

Christian Pupils Outnumbered By Muslims Even In Roman Catholic Schools.
The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham there has been a sharp decline in the proportion of Catholics being educated in local faith schools.
At English Martyrs in Sparkhill, Birmingham, just 36 of the 410 pupils are Catholic while the vast majority are Muslim.
At Sacred Heart Primary in Salford, there are only seven Catholic pupils and moves are under way to remove it from the diocese’s jurisdiction… An inspection by the diocese in 2007 said the situation was “seriously affecting the school’s ability to provide a traditional Catholic education”.

You don’t say.

Last year the Catholic Education Service said Catholic schools should provide multi-faith prayer rooms for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh students.
It also suggested bathrooms should be adapted to accommodate ritual cleansing.

In further nothing-to-see-here news:

In inner London, 54 per cent of primary pupils and 48.5 per cent in secondary institutions do not speak English as their first language…
He added: ‘In inner London it’s hard to know who immigrant children are supposed to integrate with since they heavily outnumber local children.’