Multilingual Education
Bilingual Education program:
A Bilingual Education (BE) program is a research-based program comprised of the following instructional components: Language Arts which includes Home and English Language Arts, English as a New Language (ENL) and Bilingual content areas. Each school district that has an enrollment of 20 or more ELLs/MLLs of the same grade level, and all of whom have the same home language (other than English) in a school and/or district, shall provide such students with a BE program. If a BE Program had 15 ELLs/MLLs the previous year it must continue into the next school year. There are two types of BE Programs: Transitional Bilingual Education Programs, and Dual Language Programs (One-way and Two-way). In many of our schools we are replacing Transitional Bilingual Programs with Dual-Language Programs as they show the most effectiveness.
Buffalo Public Schools strives to ensure that all of our students become bilingual, biliterate and bicultural. Currently, we have 7 Bilingual Education Programs (Spanish) in the following Schools:
Name of School | Location/Phone# | Type of Programs (as of 10/2018) | Language Allocation Policy (LAP) |
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PS #3: D’Youville Porter Elementary School, PK - 8 | 255 Porter Avenue 716.816.3120 | PK – 6: Dual-Language 7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support | 50% English 50% Spanish Daily |
PS #30: Frank A. Sedita Elementary School, PK - 8 | 21 Lowell Street 716.816.3220 | PK – 6: Dual-Language 7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support | 50% English 50% Spanish Daily |
PS #33 Bilingual Center Elementary School, PK - 8 | 157 Elk Street 716.816.4783 | PK – 6: Dual-Language 7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support | 50% English 50% Spanish Daily |
PS#48@39 Elementary School, PK - 8 | 487 High Street 716.816.3240 | PK – 6: One-way Dual Language 7th Bilingual Language Support | 90% Spanish 10% English (50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade |
PS #64 Frederick Law Olmsted Elementary School, PK - 4 | 874 Amherst Street 716.816.3420 | PK – 4: Dual Language | 90% Spanish 10% English (50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade. |
PS #76 Elementary School, PK - 8 | 315 Carolina Street 716.816.3848 | PK – 6: One-way Dual Language 7 & 8: Bilingual Language Support | 90% Spanish 10% English (50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade |
PS 156 Frederick Law Olmsted Elementary School, 5 - 12 | 319 Suffolk Street 716-816-4330 | Grades 5-8: Dual Language | 50% English 50% Spanish Daily |
PS 207 Lafayette International High School, 9-12 | 370 Lafayette Avenue 716-816-4358 | Grades 9-12 Bilingual Language Support |
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