Serving Newcomer Students at the Secondary Level

English language learners (ELLs) represent the fastest-growing student segment of the K-12 population in the U.S. Among ELLs, newly arrived immigrant adolescents represent one of the most at-risk subgroups for academic failure—especially those with gaps in their formal education and low levels of English literacy. Profiled districts generally define newcomer students as immigrant students who have spent between one and four years in the U.S. school system. This research brief discusses how to meet the diverse educational and social-emotional needs in serving newcomer students in middle and high school.

Consider the “program-within-school” model