Lyons Township High School is proud to offer the Illinois State Seal of Biliteracy to qualifying LTHS Seniors who demonstrate a high level of proficiency in languages other than English. The languages currently approved for this recognition at LTHS are:

Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai

The State Seal is an award given to high school students that appears as a seal on their diplomas and official transcripts to certify that the student is biliterate in English and one or more languages.  A biliterate person can read, write, speak, and understand another language in addition to English at the Intermediate High level of proficiency.

Benefits of the seal include:

• earning college credit in Illinois and possibly other states
• distinguishing your resume and college application
• earning scholarship and career opportunities
• understanding your proficiency to set advanced language goals

Students who meet the following criteria will be awarded the seal:

LTHS will offer testing on the following dates during the 2021-22 school year. 

Interested students should:

• Select one of the testing dates, register and pay the $25 fee in the bookstore by the date indicated below.

Please contact Paula Nardi, Fine Arts Division Chair at pnardi@lths.net.