Chief Academic Officer of St. Vrain Valley Schools Diane Lauer announced on Tuesday that 199 seniors at Longmont High School will be graduating with a Seal of Biliteracy this year.
A Seal of Biliteracy is “an award given by a school, school district, or state in recognition of students who have studied and attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation.” The goal of the initiative, which was started by Californians Together in 2008, is to help students “recognize the value of their academic success and see the tangible benefits of being bilingual.”
The state of Colorado passed Senate Bill 17-123 in 2017, which authorizes a school or district to grant a diploma endorsement in biliteracy to a student who “demonstrates proficiency in English and at least one foreign language” and “establishes the requirements a graduating high school student must meet to obtain the biliteracy endorsement.”
Lauer congratulated the Longmont High School graduates who will obtain the Seal of Biliteracy in a post on X. “You have earned a strong competitive advantage in our globalized world,” she said.
Longmont High School’s graduation ceremony will occur this Saturday, May 24 at 10 a.m. at Longmont High School and will also be livestreamed on YouTube. Longmont High School is part of the St. Vrain Valley School District, which has the highest graduation rate in St. Vrain Valley Schools’ history this year, at 94.3 percent, and had the highest graduation rate among Colorado’s 10 largest school districts. Approximately 2,300 students will graduate from St. Vrain Valley Schools this week.
