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Eldorado Emerson Private School:
Eldorado Emerson Private School in California is a non-profit private high school offering an international / ESL (English as Second Language) program to 7th-12th Grade international students. Eldorado Emerson Private School is located in the safe, clean, affluent City of Orange in Orange County, approximately 40 minutes south of Los Angeles, 20 minutes from local beaches, and 15 minutes from Disneyland, CA. Eldorado Emerson is a Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accredited school with approximately 200 students enrolled. Established over 50 years ago, our school is dedicated to excellence in education with an average class size of ten to eighteen students.

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International / ESL Program:

The International / ESL program is made possible by a diverse faculty representing numerous foreign languages, in addition to a teacher with a Masters Degree in ESL, as well as small class sizes which provide individual attention to each student.

- Our International / ESL program attracts students from around the world to live in the United States and study at Eldorado Emerson.
- Students are accepted for the entire academic year: 11 months, September through July.
- We offer I-20 (F1) Visas, home-stay programs and transportation to and from school.
- International high school students take ESL classes for two class periods per day, and they take their regular high school classes for the rest of their class periods each day.
- Our intimate learning atmosphere is the hallmark of our school and has allowed us to create a family-like environment that is highly responsive to the needs of our international and ESL students.
- We accept applications to on a year-round basis.
- Incoming ESL students are evaluated by our in-house placement test, previous exposure to English and an oral interview with our ESL staff.
- Strong emphasis is on integrating ESL students into regular academic classes.

Our Philosophy:

Our school is a learning community supporting the needs of all students and promoting each student to their maximum potential. We offer students educational, social, and artistic opportunities to develop into lifelong learners who value both intelligence and imagination. In this supportive environment, we cater for all races, creeds, cultures, ethnicity, and religions.

Quality Teachers:
Our highly experienced teachers believe in their students and their work. Our teachers are friendly, well educated, intelligent, creative, orderly, dedicated and hard working and offer inspiration to students.

Student Accommodation:
We provide homestay / host family accommodation with local English-speaking families for our international students so they can completely immerse themselves in the English language and American culture. Student transportation information is available on request.

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Address: 4100 East Walnut Avenue, Orange 92869, Orange County, California , USA
Some interested visitors submitting program inquiries to our school up to 2025-02-23 were from:

Ho chi Minh City, Vietnam; DUSHANBE, Tajikistan; Nonthaburi, Thailand; Irvine, Taiwan; Bogota, Colombia; Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania; Willemstad; GEORGIA; Santa Ana, CA; Austria; and more.
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