World Language Credit

Can you read, write, speak and listen in a language other than English?

You can earn high school credit in a world language by successfully demonstrating your proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing in this language on a district approved assessment. OSD uses the Avant Assessment Program providing testing in the languages listed below using STAMP and ALTA.

 

Register for testing by emailing Heather Randolph: [email protected]

 

STAMP/ALTA Fall Test Dates:

Knox Building:

  • Register by February 28, 2025

  • Testing: by appointment, March 2025

 

Olympia High School:

  • Register by  February 28, 2025

  • Testing: March 19, 2025

  • Time: 9am-Noon

  • View the flyer

  

Capital High School:

  • Register by February 28, 2025

  • Testing: March 18, 2025

  • Time: 9-Noon

  • View the flyer

All Middle School 8th graders

  •  Register with your school counselor

  • Testing: All of March 2025

  • Location: afterschool at the district office, or during school hours

  • View the flyer 

STAMP: (languages offered)

  • ASL

  • Arabic

  • Bulgarian

  • French

  • German

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Mandarin Simplified

  • Mandarin Traditional

  • Norwegian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Spanish

ALTA: (languages offered)

  • Ampheric

  • Armenian

  • Cabo Verdean

  • Chin (Hakha)

  • Chuukese

  • Czech

  • Filipino (Tagalog)

  • Haitian-Creole

  • Hawaiian (Olelo Hawai'i)

  • Hmong

  • Ilocano

  • Kannada

  • Marshallese

  • Marathi

  • Samoan

  • Somali Maay Maay

  • Solami Maxaa

  • Swahili

  • Tamil

  • Telugu

  • Turkish

  • Ukrainian

  • Urdu

  • Vietnamese

  • Yup'ik

  • Zomi