OUR HISTORY
DePorres Place is a highly regarded adult literacy program in Palm Beach County and was honored with the 2009 “Excellence in Education” Award by the Florida Literacy Coalition as “an organization demonstrating achievement, innovation, leadership and organizational excellence”.
As the population of Palm Beach County became more diverse, DePorres Place developed an effective conversational English program — ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) — for adult immigrants who wanted to learn to speak English. At the beginning of the school year in 2002, DePorres P.L.A.C.E. added this ESOL program.
In 2004, DePorres Place became a part of the Dominican Rea Literacy Corporation. This is an umbrella organization of six literacy centers run the Adrian Dominican sisters. As a part of this corporation, DePorres Place became an Adrian Dominican sponsored institution.
DePorres Place is a member of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, the Florida Literacy Coalition and ProLiteracy America.




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