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BOARD OF TRUSTEES' INDICATOR REPORT
1999-2000 Basic Skills – English as a Second Language (ESL)


Goal 3:  Basic Skills
DCCCD students will acquire basic literacy skills and developmental education to live
more functionally and become ready to participate successfully in college-level curricula.

District-wide Indicators

-- enrollment trends in ESL courses
-- course performance in credit ESL courses
-- unduplicated counts of ESL students
ESL Enrollment Trends

ESL enrollment trends for continuing education and credit enrollment, 1994 to 1999

Over 15,000 students enrolled in a continuing education and/or credit ESL course in 1998-99. This represents almost 7% of the estimated county adult population that speaks a language other than English.

Credit ESL continues to have one of the highest completion rates (91%) in the District. In addition, 74% of grades were A, B or C.

District continuing education enrollments increased 6% and credit enrollments increased 52% over the prior year.
 

1998-99 ESL
BHC
BJP
CVC
EFC
ECC
MVC
NLC
RLC
CE Students
1-Yr % Change
2,519 +20%
53
n.a.
214
-28%
461
-10%
2,962
+12%
1,570
-2% 
2,265 
-1%
3,163 
0%
CE Enrollments
1-Yr % Change
4,976
+26%
108
n.a.
545
-17%
673
-22%
7,215
+15%
2,785
-5%
5,647
+1%
7,058
-2%
CR Students
1-Yr % Change
897
+6%
0
0
147
-39%
222
+14%
155
-4%
86
-23%
1,460
+16%
CR Enrollments 
1-Yr % Change
3,439
+25%
0
0
360
-31%
722
+22%
394
-8%
213
-31%
8,612
+93%

Note:  Enrollments reflect the number of courses in which students are enrolled. For example, one student taking two classes would be equivalent to two enrollments.

Data Source: Colleague and Legacy data files, BJP data are self-reported

Prepared by District Office of Research, March 2000

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1998-1999 ESL Indicator Report
1999-2000 Board Indicator Reports