Glasgow City Council's education department had given a "strong lead in supporting and celebrating diversity in its population", inspectors said last week in a follow-up from their inspection report of May 2002.
There are now more than 2,000 asylum seekers enrolled in the city's schools, and inspectors said the council had "continued to support these children very effectively".
Glasgow hadn't yet succeeded in reducing the gap between the levels of attainment of its pupils and national averages, they said, although they noted that the council faced "major challenges in tackling extensive social and economic deprivation".
A council spokesman said the report was a "fair reflection of where we are".
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