Catholic high school in the southern US, late 80’s, early 90’s - French, Spanish or Latin. I don’t know if there are different choices now.
Well I did not have a High School in Pakistan, we had O and A Levels and equivalents. But, well English, Urdu were compulsory (both official languages and the medium of instruction was in English anyway, but both not the languages of the area I was in, which incidentally was not taught at all), French, Latin,German, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit. I happily avoided
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Besides English - a mandatory requirement and the most important subject after math - my school also offered Literary Arabic. I took it for a few years, and was lousy at it.
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:dubious: Please explain.
Late 80’s in southern Appalachia and we had Spanish, French, German, and Latin to chose among. I took Spanish. Was the most important class I took in high school.
I dragged that old and mostly unused Spanish from some dark recess of my brain when I met Srta Iggy while I was on vacation. I managed to impress her enough, or maybe she just took pity on me.
Southern California in the 70s: German, French, Spanish and they dropped the Latin elective my senior year.
Twin Cities, MN high school offered:
4 years French, German, and Spanish
1 year Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin
We also offered ESL (English as a Second language).
In my senior year, my day consisted of 6 classes. French, German, Spanish, Japanese, English, and math. I loved it.
UK, State Girls’ Grammar School in the 90’s; compulsory French, then a choice of Spanish/German in the 2nd year, with the option to drop one at the start of the 3rd year. My class was the first to be offered German, and also the last to be offered Latin as an extra subject, taken in lunch breaks.
I didn’t pick Latin on the list, as it was dropped by the school when I’d been taking it for a year (after I’d been told I could take it to GSCE, to my annoyance).
Italian, Japanese and Indonesian. This was in Australia.
I took Russian.
We had a two year teacher swap that sent one of our high school English teachers to Russia and brought a Russian teacher to the US. This came in handy many years later when a work assignment took me to Kazakhstan for three years.
None. I took French.
Only French and Spanish in my tiny midwestern town.
Other: to;dr (too old don’t remember). I know there was Spainish and French (I took French). I think there were others but don’t remember.
English is a compulsory subject in all Israeli (non-Yeshiva) schools - my son started learning it in first grade. The Psychometric tests, which are the Israeli equivalent of the SATs and are needed to get into college, consist of three sections: Math (40%), Hebrew (40%) and English (20%). Much of the material (books, articles) we studied in university was in English, and no translations were provided.
As for high school, Israel has national matriculation tests that have to be passed in order to graduate. There’s a broad variety of tests, and they’re organized, college-style, by points, with 1 being the minimum and 5 being the maximum. Math and English tests - which are both mandatory - are given in 3, 4 and 5-point formats, and high school curricula are built accordingly. My high school, however, required that all students take 5-point English, with an additional foreign language being optional.
In Minneapolis in the early '70s, my school offered German, French, Spanish, and Swedish. I took all four (German the most) and then went to language camp in the summer to learn Russian.
The last time I visited in the mid-'90s, they had dropped Swedish and added Russian and an Amerindian language (Ojibwa, I think).
Latin, German, Spanish, and French were offered, but that was 50 years ago. Since then they’ve added Russian, and I think Hebrew and maybe Chinese.
Only French in Latin in my Michigan HS in the 1970s. Currently they offer only Spanish.
Rural Nebraska in the 1980s: they offered French exclusively, and only two years. They switched to Spanish after I graduated; I don’t think they’ve added anything since then.
My senior year, I had to choose between French II and pre-calculus. To this day, I haven’t taken any mathematics past algebra and geometry (not including statistics).
I included English in my list, because for some of the students it might as well have been a foreign language. At least that’s how their writing of it would appear. 
Small, all-male Catholic high school in Wisconsin, late 1970s/early 1980s.
As it was a Catholic school, one year of Latin was mandatory. Subsequent years of Latin were offered, but very few people took it – I took Latin II, and that had 8 students (out of ~75 guys in my class). No one in my class took Latin beyond sophomore year.
We had to take a placement test (in math and English skills) before our freshman year. If you scored in the 50th percentile or higher on the English portion, you had to choose between taking French or German (I chose French). You had to take at least 2 years of that language, but could take up to 4 years (I took French III as a junior, but opted against French IV as a senior). If you scored in the 49th percentile or below on the placement test, you had to take one year of Spanish, and then you were done with foreign language (the school didn’t offer Spanish beyond freshman year).
In retrospect, learning Spanish would have been far more helpful to me in my career than learning French or Latin…but then, in 1979, no one really knew how much the Hispanic influence in the U.S. would grow in the next 30 years.
Early 80’s, SoCal (Los Angeles suburbs.) My school offered Spanish, German, and French. I remember because there was a language requirement to graduate and, despite being an honors student, I failed all three. Second time through French, my teacher have my a pity C-.
Not a foreign language, but we also had English as a second language for recent arrivals to America.
Late 80s - early 90s, NE Indiana. My school offered French, Spanish, German, and Latin. You had to have so many foreign language credits to graduate, I took two years of Spanish and two years of French. I didn’t like the 3rd year Spanish teacher so I switched to French my Junior year.
I have friends who have kids at this school now and they say the school has started offering Japanese and Russian.