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Bilingual Education program: A Bilingual Education (BE) program is a research-based program comprised of the following instructional components: Language Arts which includes Home and English Language Arts, English as a New Language (ENL) and Bilingual content areas. Each school district that has an enrollment of 20 or more ELLs/MLLs of the same grade level, and all of whom have the same home language (other than English) in a school and/or district, shall provide such students with a BE program. If a BE Program had 15 ELLs/MLLs the previous year it must continue into the next school year. There are two types of BE Programs: Transitional Bilingual Education Programs, and Dual Language Programs (One-way and Two-way). In many of our schools we are replacing Transitional Bilingual Programs with Dual-Language Programs as they show the most effectiveness.
Buffalo Public Schools strives to ensure that all of our students become bilingual, biliterate and bicultural. Currently, we have 7 Bilingual Education Programs (Spanish) in the following Schools:
Name of School
Location/Phone#
Type of Programs (as of 10/2018)
Language Allocation Policy (LAP)
PS #3:
D’Youville Porter Elementary School, PK - 8
255 Porter Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14201716.816.3120
PK – 6:
Dual-Language
7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support
50% English
50% Spanish
Daily
PS #30:
Frank A. Sedita Elementary
School, PK - 8
21 Lowell Street
Buffalo, NY 14213716.816.3220
PK – 6:
Dual-Language
7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support
50% English
50% Spanish
Daily
PS #33
Bilingual Center Elementary School, PK - 8
157 Elk Street
Buffalo, NY 14210716.816.4783
PK – 6:
Dual-Language
7th & 8th: Bilingual Language Support
50% English
50% Spanish
Daily
PS#48@39
Elementary School, PK - 2
487 High Street
Buffalo, NY 14211716.816.3240
PK – 6:
One-way Dual Language
90% Spanish
10% English
(50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade
PS #64 Frederick Law Olmsted Elementary School, PK - 4
874 Amherst Street
Buffalo, NY 14216716.816.3420
PK – 4:
Dual Language
90% Spanish
10% English
(50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade.
PS #76 Elementary School, PK - 8
315 Carolina Street
Buffalo, NY 14201716.816.3848
PK – 6: One-way Dual Language
7 & 8: Bilingual Language Support
90% Spanish
10% English
(50% English/50% Spanish) by 4th grade
PS 156
Frederick Law Olmsted Elementary School, 5 - 12
319 Suffolk Street
Buffalo, NY 14215716-816-4330
Grades 5-8: Dual Language
50% English
50% Spanish
Daily
PS 207 Lafayette International High School,
9-12
370 Lafayette Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14213716-816-4358
Grades 9-12 Bilingual Language Support