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Number of refugee students in Gainesville schools unknown
Officials estimate some 30 of 200 high school English learners are from Central America
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As children from Central America have fled to the U.S. as refugees, some have wound up in Gainesville schools, but officials said they don’t keep track of how many. “That’s not a question that we ask,” said Laura Herrington, the district’s director of Title III, a federal program that includes English language learning. Still, Herrington said the students are there even if there isn’t an exact count.