 The results were rejected by John Howitt, superintendent of the GECDSB, who indicated that the large ESL program had skewed the results.In 2011, Forster has 480 students, with 51 percent recent immigrants taking an ESL or English Language Development (ELD) course; the ESL program was for students who have received formal education in their native countries, while the ELD program was for those who have not.A total of 55 countries are represented.