San Francisco / California / United States
Located in San Francisco, Newcomer High School provides a one-year transitional educational program for newly arrived immigrant high school-aged students who need to learn English and become familiar with their new social and cultural environment. The school offers the English as a Second Language program. It also provides bilingual core academic courses in Chinese and Spanish. Newcomer High School also offers academic classes in sheltered English to native speakers of other languages. The school serves more than 200 students in grades 9 through 12. Its academic curriculum includes math, science and social studies. Newcomer High School is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District.