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Tomball ISD outlines multilingual progress, proposes feeder changes amid capacity concerns
Summary
District leaders reported growth in emergent bilingual services, TELPAS gains and a 13% reclassification rate; they proposed a cost-neutral red-feeder one-way dual-language option for 2026-27 to address capacity at Rose Hill while trustees asked for an in-depth workshop on 1-way vs. 2-way tradeoffs.
At the Oct. 13 workshop, Chief Academic Officer Doctor Michael Webb presented the district—s annual multilingual report and a proposal for expanding dual-language programming.
Webb said Tomball ISD serves emergent bilingual students through multiple delivery methods and that the district—s top five languages are Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Arabic and Portuguese (75 languages in total). Current counts in the presentation were roughly 1,100 students in bilingual programs, about 2,260 in ESL programs, and 57 in alternative-language…
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