Education
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
Education Edition
2024
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Demand for ESL programs grows alongside student population increase
Diving in deeper
Prosper ISD has expanded its language programs over the last few years to accommodate the growing diversity and meet the needs of students, King said. This includes increasing bilingual courses, world language programs and English as a Second Language or ESL classes. PISD has also doubled the number of ESL specialists and paraprofessionals to keep up with the growing emergent bilingual population, King said. The district has focused its e orts on hiring ESL-certi ed candidates when employing teachers. The district also o ers training and resources for current sta to obtain their ESL certi cation while at PISD, she said.
The number of students acquiring English in Prosper ISD has tripled since the 2019-20 school year. Over 70 languages are represented among the approximately 3,700 students who are classi ed as emergent bilingual in the 2024-25 school year, said Alexis King, PISD’s director of language programs. Emergent bilingual refers to students who are acquiring the English language. “As the district has continued to be one of the fastest-growing districts in the state, Prosper ISD has also seen a signi cant increase in language diversity over the past ve years, as many of our new residents are from diverse linguistic backgrounds,” King said in an email.
Emergent bilingual student growth
Emergent bilingual enrollment Prosper ISD enrollment
2019-20 798
16,789
1,309 1,443
2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
19,063
21,781
2,341
24,931
3,639 3,700*
28,341
31,241*
Number of students 0 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K 30K 35K
SOURCE: PROSPER ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
*APPROXIMATION
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