Two Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts students earned the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy for the Spring 2025 semester.
The Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy is awarded each spring and fall to students in ninth through 12th grades who demonstrate a proficiency in English and at least one other language before graduating high school.
Students who earned the seal this spring and the languages for which they earned recognition include: Titan Dinwiddie, a senior from Sherwood, French, and Carmella Lewis, a senior from Alma, Spanish.
The program is sponsored by Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association and the Arkansas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. The Arkansas Department of Education officially endorsed the seal in June 2018. The Seal of Biliteracy program is recognized in 49 states and Washington, D.C.
Since the 2017 pilot year in Arkansas, a total of 7,246 students from 120 high schools around the state have attained this certification across 343 languages other than English, according to a release from the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy Committee.