Ben Milam International Academy

Ben Milam International Academy is a Midland ISD school partnership committed to producing bilingual, biliterate and sociocultural competent scholars who will excel in a globalized 21st century economy. Ben Milam International Academy opened its doors in the fall of 2019, serving pre-kindergarten and kindergarten scholars. Each year a grade level is added, until fully expanded to a school-wide dual language campus serving pre-kindergarten to sixth grade students. Scholars will be fully immersed in an enriched curriculum taught in Spanish and English adding French as a foreign language beginning in fourth grade. We will implement a two-way dual language model with a 90% Spanish and 10% English language allocation upon entry to our program. Each subsequent year, English instruction will increase until students engage in 50/50 language allocation by the fourth grade. By the end of the sixth grade, Ben Milam International Academy students will meet or exceed grade-level standards in both English and Spanish