Multilingual Learners: How to Report Foreign Exchange Students

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Last updated: Jul 30, 2024 by Michelle Tubbs
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  • Report an accurate Student Program Associations of Foreign Exchange when a student is identified as:

    • Foreign Exchange

    • Foreign Exchange students with an active Foreign Exchange program association will be identified as a student in the Foreign Exchange program for certification in July with the Additional Student Programs. 

  • Foreign Exchange is a year-to-year program and must be reported on the first day a students enters the program of the current school year until the student exits the school or the end of the school year occurs.

  • Foreign Exchange students must have an additional Multilingual Learners program type association record when the student's language code is anything other than English (211).

    • Exception: English speaking students participating in the Dual Language/Immersion program.

  • Foreign Exchange students must have a proficiency level provided and the instrument used to obtain the level provided on the student record when the student’s language code is anything other than English (211). 

    • Foreign Exchange students with language code of English (211) must be reported with proficiency level NES.

  • Foreign Exchange students must have a birth country provided outside of the US or US territories. 

  • Foreign Exchange students with an active student school association (enrollment) record and a Multilingual Learners program record will be counted on the Multilingual certification summary based upon their proficiency levels.

  • Foreign Exchange students returning to their ‘Home Country’ or exiting the school must have an exit code of 27 provided on the student school association (enrollment) record on the last day of the school calendar to remove the student from a school’s cohort.