When your child is an English Learner, it can be confusing and difficult to understand whether they are progressing normally toward proficiency in the language and what they need to do be reclassified as fluent and English proficient. Here is some information to how schools classify students as English Learners, what they have to provide students to learn English, what criteria they take into account in reclassifying them as proficient in English and why reclassification matters. 

Why was my child classified as and English learner?

When first enrolled in the Fremont Unified School District, each family is required to fill out a Home Language Survey. If this survey indicates that another language other than English is spoken at home, your child will ve given the English Language Proficiency Assessment of California, or ELPAC. The test measures students' abilities in reading, writing, speaking and understanding. 

If the test results show the child speaks, listens, writes and reads English fluently, at an age-appropriate level, the school classifies them as "initial fluent English proficient". If the results show they do not speak, listen, read and write English fluently, thee school classifies them as an English learner (EL) . 

Students classified as English learners must retake the ELPAC each spring until the school determines that they have reached proficiency in English.