Arabic, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, French, Ibo, Indonesian, Nepali, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Other African, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. In these school, ESL uses a pull-out model of instruction. English Language Learning students have their mainstream classroom to spend a period of time each day for ESL instruction. Instruction is focused on English language development with emphasis on increasing vocabulary, reading comprehension and strategies, writing skills, and cultural understanding. At North, South, Tech and Apollo, ESL students are homogeneously grouped according to their level of language proficiency.
Classes are at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Students receive credit for all ESL classes. Students exit the ESL program by gaining proficiency on daily work in mainstream and ESL classrooms, achieving on standardized and other tests, and performing on Graduation Standards requirements.