ESL Program

The English as a Second Language (ESL) program is available to students in grades 7th - 12th, who are English Language Learners (ELL).  If a student is in Pre-K through 6th grade and is an ELL and their native language is not Spanish, they also qualify for the ESL program. 

At registration, parents are required to fill out a Home Language Survey (HLS) that asks what language their child speaks at home and what language is used mostly at home.  A student is given an Oral Language Proficiency test (OLPT) in English in grades Pre-K through 1st when a response on the HLS is anything other than English.  Any student who does not receive a score of English fluency will be offered the ESL program.

In grades 2nd through 6th the student is given the OLPT and a standardized achievement test in English.   If a student does not receive a level of fluency on the OLPT and scores below 40% on the standardized achievement test, he/she will be offered participation in the ESL program.