It began as a community school and now houses bilingual elementary students.

The Museum has a tradition of hiring bilingual, local students for their summer tour-giving staff.

However, these results are offset by the high number of bilingual students resulting in lower than average test scores in the school itself.

Still, only 20 percent of the bilingual students passed the examination and were able to take regular English classes.

These programs also train elementary and high school teachers to teach science to bilingual students.

All these initiatives meant that bilingual students were being taught by staff whose training was as specialists in vocational or academic areas.

Many bilingual students lack appropriate study skills and appear to take little responsibility for their own learning.

For the other half of the bilingual students, the regular curriculum is taught mainly in their native languages.

The goal is bilingual students with mastery of both English and the immersion language.

Several have joined the new Hunter program, using bilingual students as interpreters.