Frisco ISD sees language growth with emergent bilingual students

Students enter Wilkinson Middle School before the start of the school day. (Hannah Johnson/Community Impact)

Frisco ISD has 77 languages represented among its 62,700 students.

FISD serves emergent bilingual students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, said Paige Brewer, director of special programs, in a presentation about English as a Second Language programs given during a Nov. 17 board meeting. Emergent bilingual, or EB, refers to students who are acquiring the English language during school…

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