North San Antonio Edition | November 2025

Education

BY PARKS KUGLE

During the Oct. 6 North East ISD board of trustees meeting, the board received an evaluation of the district’s bilingual and ESL programs, which showed that the district’s emergent bilingual stu- dent population remained consis- tent year over year from 20.11% in the 2023-24 school year to 20.74% in the 2024-25 school year. NEISD program enrollment remains steady

In a nutshell Alicia Calderon, senior director of bilingual and ESL programs, said the increased emergent bilingual population of around 150-170 students is not as significant as previous years, which have seen a steady increase from 11.6% in the 2016-17 school year to over 20% in the current school year. Calderon said the district’s next steps include increasing student performance on STAAR assessments, improving TELPAS performance, increasing students’ proficiency levels and enhancing biliteracy practices.

Students in bilingual program in 2024-25

*ESL= ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE **DL= DUAL LANGUAGE

315

979

Emergent bilinguals in **DL

1,501

5,390

Emergent bilinguals in *ESL

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Non-emergent bilinguals in **DL

5,275

Total: 13,460 Students

Monitored students after leaving emergent bilingual programs

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