We're certainly pleased to work with a multi-agency team in Calgary through Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre. Our students would probably come to us a couple of weeks after they arrived in Calgary and would be assessed at our Kingsland Centre. We have a program option available called LEAD, which stands for our literacy, English, and academic development program. It provides specialized support to our refugee students with limited English proficiency who may have experienced interrupted schooling, or who have experienced traumatic life events.
We have staff who have had the ability to train with specialized understanding of English-language development as well as trauma. Our LEAD model is very short term. It's intensive support with a goal of supporting our students and their families as they transition to mainstream classrooms and ESL courses. Most of our students would stay in LEAD up to two years and then they would begin to transition to regular programs.
However, each student is assessed when they come to us. We have the benefit of interpreters and understanding each child's story. Approximately 80% of our Syrian refugees have been supported through our LEAD program; 20% have had sufficient English and a history of schooling that has allowed them to go into mainstream classrooms with English-language support. Sixteen of those refugees have come to us with extremely complex learning needs. They needed to access specialized programming. Some have included students who are deaf and hard of hearing, some with limited vision, others with mild to very severe cognitive delays, and some with very severe medical needs as well.
Since January we've added 20 classrooms. LEAD classrooms have a teacher and an English-language learning assistant. They are supported as well by psychologists who specialize in trauma. We've added 20 teachers in the Calgary board in total. We've added 17 English-language learning assistants. We have diversity support workers; two full-time psychologists, again specializing in children with trauma and refugee experiences; and we've also hired eight certified Arabic interpreters who are on call as needed to support our students and their families. We have also paid for the transportation of those students. As they are getting settled into their new homes we provide transportation with no cost to the family.
Overall, our current anticipated costs for this year are about $2.6 million, and under the Alberta education framework for funding, full funding is only received for students as of September 30. As you know, our Syrian refugees arrived after January. Therefore, we've received no additional funding for these students.
As well, in our framework we received an additional $5,200 for each student identified as a refugee, and unfortunately should this designation change, we will not receive those dollars either. Again, $2.6 million—