ESOL services prepare students to be college and career ready by developing proficiency in the English language. ESOL services help students achieve academic success, develop critical thinking skills, and solve problems. More specifically, ESOL services: 

• Develop English learners’ language proficiency and communication skills.
• Create rigorous content-based curricula and resources to foster English learners’ collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Support English learners’ access to advanced academics or appropriate special services.
• Provide learning environments that build on students’ diverse academic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds.
• Promote active participation of English learners and their families in the school community.

The middle school ESOL curriculum is a scaffolded content-based curriculum that fully aligns to the essential understandings, knowledge and skills of the grade level Standards of Learning. The curriculum is designed to support English Learners by providing context, building background knowledge and vocabulary, and fostering the academic discourse of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies so that students may successfully navigate rigorous academic content.

Middle school ESOL instruction provides English Learners with a language focused environment to develop the academic language necessary to demonstrate complex thinking and learning across the disciplines. Students learn to recognize and use language explicit to the task in the four domains of reading, writing, speaking and listening through engaging interactions with teachers and peers.

ESOL course selection is based upon the English Language Proficiency Level of the individual student.