The students are part of the high school’s American Sign Language program, a quickly growing language course that added a new teacher this year and will add a fourth course next year.

The addition of American Sign Language by School District 186 comes as the state mandates students take two years of a world language.

PEABODY, MA — Peabody Public Schools will launch an introduction to American Sign Language course at the high school next year as part of what Superintendent Josh Vadala said will be a push to ...