The Capacity Building Special Alternatives Program, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its second year of operation, functioned at seven schools in a community school district of Manhattan (New York). The project served 195 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) whose native languages were Albanian, Chinese, Haitian, Polish, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. The project also targeted non-Latino LEP students with an achievement gap of more than one year in one or more content areas. Participants received instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) and content areas using an ESL methodology. An active parent component was included. The program met its objectives for English language development and content area instruction in science. It met four of five staff development objectives, and one of two parental involvement objectives. Data was not adequate to evaluate one staff development objective and one parent participation objective. Better data collection is recommended for program improvement, as is exploring additional techniques to improve student mathematics skills. Four tables present evaluation data. Appendixes list instructional materials and class schedules. (SLD)