Basic English & Esl (2 Pk) / Instructional Forty-one percent of Harrisonburg’s public school students are in the English as a Second Language program — the highest rate in Virginia. Of the district’s approximately 4,302 students, 1,765 are in the ESL program. According to the school division’s Web site, students in the ESL program in 2006-07 spoke 44 different languages. The Web site says 76 percent of the ESL students spoke Spanish. Superintendent Donald Ford said in four to five years, the school system could see half its students in the ESL program.

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