FULL-TIME BILINGUAL/ESL PROGRAM
PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL BILITERACY ACADEMY
Plainfield High School provides a departmentalized developmental, tiered model program for Spanish speaking ELL’s allowing them to receive content area instruction in their native language for Math, Science, and Social Studies and in English including a period of ESL per day. As proficiency in English is acquired, students begin to take content area classes in English while continuing to receive ESL support. Students are also eligible to receive Spanish for Native Speakers classes and other World Languages courses.
World Languages
Plainfield Public Schools offers students in all grades the opportunity to learn a foreign language. Elementary and Middle Schools offer Spanish courses. Plainfield High School and PAAAS offers both Spanish and French courses as an option to meet the state requirement for graduation.
•student population
• OVER 600 ELL STUDENTS FROM LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA, PORTUGAL, The PHILIPPINES AND THE MIDDLE EAST
•COHORT
•LANGUAGE ALLOCATION (DETERMINED BY ACCESS SCORE AND TIER PLACEMENT)
SLIFE: STUDENTS WITH LIMITED/INTERRUPTED EDUCATION
TIER A: BEGINNER LEVEL STUDENTS WITH ACCESS SCORES BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2.8
TIER B: INTERMEDIATE LEVEL STUDENTS WITH ACCESS SCORES BETWEEN 2.9 AND 3.9
TIER C: ADVANCED LEVEL STUDENTS WITH ACCESS SCORES ABOVE 4.0
•CURRICULUM
•MATH (ALGEBRA I, ALGEBRA II, GEOMETRY), SCIENCE (ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY), SOCIAL STUDIES (US HISTORY I, US HISTORY II, WORLD HISTORY)
•ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL)
•ELLS ARE SCHEDULED ACCORDING TO ENGLISH AND GRADE LEVEL
•SPANISh (ALL BILINGUAL ELLS IN TIER A)
•SCHEDULE
•FOLLOWS CURRENT PHS 48 MINUTE 8 PERIOD DAY WITH EXTRA ENGLISH SUPPORT