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The World House Program has been established to support newly arrived youth at HUSD. The program began operating in 2011 at Tennyson High School and Chavez Middle School. The focus of World House is to support newcomers in learning English while integrating into a new country, new culture, and a new educational system. The World House Program is set up to support students who have been in the US for 0-2 years.

The criteria for students to enter the World House program is:

• 7th through 12th Newly Arrived ELLs who have been in the United States’ School System less than two years and who have received a level 1 or 2 in the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC)