Tracking progress and grades: 

• Newcomers generally do pretty well in class because of the leniency(Newcomer Grading Policy) and support of the teachers + paras

  • Newcomers don't usually pass ELPAC

  • take 3 years of newcomer classes, then move onto regular ELD in highschool or AVID Excel in middle

  • Pass rate for newcomer: 8 out of 50 long-term ELs or 70+ ELs in total

• Long-term English learners (born and raised in CA usually), don't do as well academically

Serving EL students

•  teach the newcomers for Periods 1 (ELD I, which is more literature and grammar-based), and 2 (ELD II, which students work on assignments or get additional support lessons for their core classes)

• newcomers are divided into clusters where they can learn in their core classes with some of their peers and with the support of a paraeducator.

• long-term ELs are in AVID Excel

• Spanish speakers: tend to have difficulty in reading, writing and listening but tend to do better in speaking English (the language proficiency is spanish is sometimes lacking with advanced academic language)

• ALL take ELPAC in Spring