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The Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School houses the elementary ELL population in the Beverly Public School District. Currently, we have 71 ELL students, K-5, representing 14% of our total school population. The ELL program at Ayers has continued to grow over the past year, and the ELL population continues to steadily increase in our district.
The profile of our students’ changes slightly across grade levels. Our students in grades K-1 were primarily born in the US (84%) and other students were born in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Greece. Similarly, the majority of our students in grades 2-5 were born in the US (54%), but other students were born in countries including Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Albania, Japan, Greece, Nepal, Haiti, Kenya, and Ukraine. Within our school Brazil is the most common country of origin, after the United States.
With a varying countries of origin comes a broad range of spoken languages. The languages most commonly spoken by our students include Spanish, Albanian, Italian, Greek, French, Cambodian, Hindi, Vietnamese, Nepali, Haitian Creole, Amharic, Greek, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, and Russian. In some cases, parents/guardians list their native languages and English as the “primary” language spoken at home. For some, this is a result of one parent speaking only the native language and the other speaking English. There are also influences of other family members, such as grandparents, living at home who only speak the native languages while the parents speak English.
Ayers is the home to many ELL students, and each student comes with a different background both culturally and educationally. Many of our students’ families have come to the U.S. for employment reasons such a...

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... A high percentage of our general education teachers have already completed their SEI Endorsements, and the remaining teachers will complete these requirements in the near future.
The ELL team ensures that parents of our ELL students feel supported and included in our school community as well. Translated documents are sent home to parents, and the ELL teacher makes frequent phone calls or face to face visits with parents. The students are included in whole class instruction as well as differentiated instruction. They are provided with primary language support, peer modeling, and facilities pull-out and push-in services to meet their instructional needs. Using collaboration between the ELL team and general classroom teachers continues to help our program grow and develop with a consistent and successful toolbox of strategies to support our growing ELL population.

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