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District reports progress of students with LEP
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By KOSAKU NARIOKA
The performance of students with limited English proficiency in the Deer Park Independent School District met the 2008 standard set by the state, the results of Spring 2008 Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System show.
The district rated 11.9 percent for kindergarten through second grades and 50.8 percent for third through 12th grades while the state standard was set at 2.5 percent for kindergarten through second grades and 25.0 percent for third through 12th grades.
These rates indicate more DPISD students achieved either advanced or advanced high levels of proficiency than expected in the state standard.
In the proficiency assessment system, students are rated at beginning, intermediate, advanced or advanced high.
The district rates do not reflect the number of students who achieved the higher levels of proficiency, though.
A district rate is an average of each student’s composite score based on the assessment of four areas: listening; speaking; reading and writing, said Patricia DeLaCruz Valenzuela, director of bilingual/English as second language programs for the district.
Valenzuela said the state developed the TELPAS as a “uniform English assessment” to measure progress of all LEP students in English since some students take Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills in Spanish and some are exempted from TAKS because they are immigrants students who are in their first three years in the U.S.
The students at beginner level account for 65 percent of the students in the kindergarten through first grade, while the beginner level students only account for 8 percent of the students of the students in the second through 12th grades, according to the latest TELPAS results. The students rated at advanced high level make up 45 percent of the second through 12th graders.
This school year, the district has a total of 1,305 LEP students. Of those, 1,261 students are participating in either bilingual or ESL programs and the parents of the rest waived their right to participate in the programs.
The majority of participating LEP students, or 716 students, are taught in the bilingual education programs at Deepwater, Parkwood, Carpenter elementary schools or Early Childhood Center, while the remainder are in ESL programs throughout the district.
The district rated 11.9 percent for kindergarten through second grades and 50.8 percent for third through 12th grades while the state standard was set at 2.5 percent for kindergarten through second grades and 25.0 percent for third through 12th grades.
These rates indicate more DPISD students achieved either advanced or advanced high levels of proficiency than expected in the state standard.
In the proficiency assessment system, students are rated at beginning, intermediate, advanced or advanced high.
The district rates do not reflect the number of students who achieved the higher levels of proficiency, though.
A district rate is an average of each student’s composite score based on the assessment of four areas: listening; speaking; reading and writing, said Patricia DeLaCruz Valenzuela, director of bilingual/English as second language programs for the district.
Valenzuela said the state developed the TELPAS as a “uniform English assessment” to measure progress of all LEP students in English since some students take Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills in Spanish and some are exempted from TAKS because they are immigrants students who are in their first three years in the U.S.
The students at beginner level account for 65 percent of the students in the kindergarten through first grade, while the beginner level students only account for 8 percent of the students of the students in the second through 12th grades, according to the latest TELPAS results. The students rated at advanced high level make up 45 percent of the second through 12th graders.
This school year, the district has a total of 1,305 LEP students. Of those, 1,261 students are participating in either bilingual or ESL programs and the parents of the rest waived their right to participate in the programs.
The majority of participating LEP students, or 716 students, are taught in the bilingual education programs at Deepwater, Parkwood, Carpenter elementary schools or Early Childhood Center, while the remainder are in ESL programs throughout the district.
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