The language and cultural backgrounds of ESL students in Windham vary considerably. Many of Windham’s ESL students learned another language before learning English and are bilingual; some ESL students communicate at home in both English and another language; some children arrive from another country understanding or speaking little or no English; and some students have had Limited Formal Schooling in their native country.
Students in Windham schools have a variety of languages in their backgrounds including: Farsi, Russian, Kazhak, Chinese, Kurdish, Greek, Khmer, Polish, Romanian, Bengali, Amharic, Patois, Bosnian, Twi, Maliseet, and Portuguese, & Spanish
