24,513 graduating high schoolers achieved an academic standard known as "biliteracy," this past school year in California. According to the state's Department of Education, the number incremented from 19,000 students last school year.

"Biliteracy means that a child or an adult would have the ability to speak, read, write and communicate in at least two languages or more," said Jan Correa, Executive Director of the California Association of Bilingual Education. "Its not just the oral communication. Its having the academic ability to succeed in at least two languages."

The students received a gold-seal on their diploma - a biliteracy seal. The California Department of Education introduced the seal in 2012.

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