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The grassroots movement that turned a UNESCO-endangered language into a groundbreaking curriculum.
Niles Township High School District 219 serves more than 4,600 students and over 70 languages are spoken in the homes of our students and families. About 60% of families are multilingual, and the most common languages spoken are Urdu, Spanish, Assyrian and Arabic.
The Assyrian people, an indigenous Middle Eastern group, make up about 30% of our district.
n 2022, D219 made history as the first public school district in the United States to approve an Assyrian language and culture curriculum. This was an eight-year journey that led to Assyrian Language accreditation in Illinois for a UNESCO-designated endangered language.
