Seats are filling up at the city’s controversial Arabic-themed school scheduled to open Tuesday.
Fifty-three students are now enrolled for the Khalil Gibran International Academy’s inaugural sixth-grade class, according to the latest Department of Education figures. The school has space for 60 students.
Like the school’s new principal, Danielle Salzberg, most of the student body cannot speak Arabic.
While the school’s planners envisioned a student body evenly mixed with native Arabic and English speakers, just eight of the enrolled students already speak Arabic.