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Program Profiles, Pre-K–12

The Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network (CELIN)

Profiles of specific Pre-K–12 early language and immersion programs.

  • 5th Grade
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    Adobe Bluffs Elementary School

    Adobe Bluffs Elementary School is a public school founded in 1992 in the Poway Unified School District, San Diego, California, and serves students in Transitional Kindergarten to Grade 5.
  • Avenues Immersion
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    Avenues: The World School

    The Early Learning Center at Avenues: The World School, in NYC, starts at age 2 and supports almost 400 students, up to age 5, when students move into Kindergarten. Students follow a 50/50 Chinese/English immersion model in the ELC.
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    Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy

    Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy, located in beautiful San Diego, California, is the only public school in the San Diego Unified School District that offers Mandarin immersion.
  • Students are immersed in Mandarin in the classroom
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    Batesville Community School Corporation

    The Batesville Community School Corporation in Indiana began in 2016 with kindergarten classes. It has expanded to 50/50 Mandarin immersion through Grade 4, and will add one grade each year until classes are offered through Grade 12.
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    Caesar Rodney School District

    Located in the suburbs outside of the Delaware state capital, the Caesar Rodney School District is home to Delaware’s first Chinese immersion program, with almost 300 students in grades K–2 in 2015.
  • Chicago Public Schools Teachers of Chinese.
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    Chicago Public Schools Chinese World Language Program

    The Chinese World Language Program in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was started in 1999, with 3 schools, and has grown to 45 schools with around 13,000 students.
  • Chinese American International School's 7th grade class trip to the Great Wall.
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    Chinese American International School

    Chinese American International School (CAIS) is a private, independent school in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. Founded in 1981, CAIS is the earliest Mandarin-English dual language immersion school in the United States.
  • Student blowing bubbles on the playground during our annual Water Play Day
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    Chinese American International School (CAIS) Preschool

    CAIS is a private, independent school in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. The preschool currently supports 72 students and is staffed by 4 lead teachers and 4 teaching associates.
  • GLOBE Chinese New Year Celebration (Globe Academy)
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    Chinese Language Education in Georgia

    The Georgia Department of Education oversees more than 1.7 million students in 212 school districts. In the 2017–18 school year, 7,107 students from 57 districts were enrolled in Chinese language courses.
  • College Park Students in Classroom
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    College Park Elementary School

    College Park Elementary School is a grade K–5 school in San Mateo, California. When Mandarin immersion was added to the Talented and Gifted Magnet program, the student population grew significantly.
  • CLIP Graduation: Lion Dance
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    Cupertino Language Immersion Program

    The Cupertino Language Immersion Program (CLIP) is a Grades K–8 program in the Cupertino Union School District of Santa Clara County, California, and provides two-way immersion education in English and Mandarin for nearly 600 students.
  • 3rd grade small-group math problem-solving activity
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    Delaware Chinese Immersion Programs

    The Delaware Department of Education supports Chinese Language Immersion programs, grades K–5, in 30% of eligible school districts across the state, involving 700 students and 32 teachers.
  • Fly Around the World with Mandarin (Denver Language School)
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    Denver Language School

    Denver Language School is the only K–8 public early total immersion charter school in Colorado that offers Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The school opened in 2010 and has more than 830 students.
  • Students performing the Umbrella Dance during a Chinese New Year celebration.
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    E.E. Waddell Language Academy

    E.E. Waddell Language Academy is one of the oldest language immersion programs in North Carolina, offering immersion in Chinese in grades K–5 and Chinese Language Arts in grades 6–8.
  • EVA Dragon Boat team
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    East Voyager Academy

    East Voyager Academy (EVA), a tuition-free public charter school founded in Charlotte in 2018, is the first Chinese immersion charter school in North Carolina. EVA serves approximately 150 students from Pre-K to Grade 8.
  • Head of School poses with members of Panda Council
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    East Point Academy

    East Point Academy is a free language immersion public charter school within the South Carolina Public Charter School District. Opening its doors in 2011, East Point serves nearly 800 students in PreK to Grade 8.
  • Group pictures of the 2018 FCPS STARTALK Program staff and students
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    Fayette County Public Schools

    Located in Lexington, Kentucky, the seventy-plus Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS) and academic programs serve more than 40,000 students. Mandarin Chinese is offered K–12.
  • Forest Hills Public Schools elementary students read a book with their teacher.
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    Forest Hills Public Schools Mandarin Immersion Program

    The Forest Hills Public School District serves approximately 10,000 students. The Mandarin Immersion Program, which began in 2008, brings together Eastern and Western culture in order to provide a rich academic, linguistic, and cultural experience for students.
  • Students writing their favorite character on a scroll
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    Frontiers Academy

    Frontiers Academy is a private, independent school in Orange County, California that offers a rigorous trilingual program in Mandarin, English, and Spanish to 80 students from age 2 to Grade 8.
  • Kindergarten and first grade students celebrate the last day of school at field day
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    Global Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA)

    Global Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) is an independent public charter school in Cleveland, Ohio. Opened in 2016, GALA is a Mandarin and Spanish immersion school, serving students in grades K–8.
  • 2016 Dragon Dance at Gideon Welles School.
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    Glastonbury Public Schools Foreign Language Program

    The Glastonbury Public Schools' Foreign Language Program in Connecticut has been in existence for almost 60 years and serves students in grades P-12.
  • Greenville Schools
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    Greenville Public Schools Chinese Immersion Program

    Greenville Public Schools is a rural district in West Michigan that has been offering Mandarin immersion to our students since 2012. Our staff, community, and families work together to ensure that our immersion students receive the education necessary to participate as responsible global citizens in an ever-changing world.
  • Students from HudsonWay Immersion School rehearse chanting "The Ballad of Mulan" ahead of the Chinese dance show Legend of Mulan at the Lincoln Center in New York/Lei Wang from Xinhua
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    HudsonWay Immersion School

    HudsonWay Immersion School (HWIS), founded in 2005, is the first independent Mandarin and Spanish immersion school in the New York City/New Jersey metropolitan area.
  • Mandarin literacy Grade 4
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    HudsonWay Immersion School

    HudsonWay is a preschool through Grade 7 Mandarin and Spanish immersion program in Stirling, New Jersey and Midtown West, New York City. The school now serves over 200 students and plans to expand to Grade 8 in 2021.
  • Pre-K Chinese class
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    International School of Denver

    The International School of Denver is a private, multicultural, multilingual school, which serves 700 students from age 3 to grade 8 in an inclusive, globally minded community.
  • ISTP's teachers help students to become self-directed learners.
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    International School of the Peninsula

    The International School of the Peninsula (ISTP) is an independent school in the heart of the Silicon Valley that offers rigorous, dynamic bilingual programs in Mandarin Chinese and French to students from preschool through 8th grade.
  • Little Tiger Campus
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    Little Tiger Chinese Immersion School

    Little Tiger Chinese Immersion School, in Austin, Texas, serves 85 students in PreK through Grade 5 and is the only full Chinese immersion school in the Austin area.
  • Students from Sister School in China visit Logansport High School
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    Logansport Community School Corporation

    Logansport Community School Corporation (LCSC) is located in Logansport, Indiana, and serves approximately 4,200 students in Kindergarten through grade 12.
  • Performance at the Silk Road Festival
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    Mandarin Immersion Magnet School

    Mandarin Immersion Magnet School (MIMS) is the first PreK–8 public school in Texas that is entirely dedicated to Mandarin immersion, following a 50/50 dual language immersion model.
  • First-graders holding the Chinese Spring couplet on the Lunar New Year day
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    Maryknoll School

    Maryknoll School is the largest K–12 Catholic, co-educational institution in Hawaii. The school follows a 50/50 immersion model for students in grades K–3, with 50% of student instruction in Mandarin and 50% in English.
  • XinXing Lunar New Year
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    Minnesota Chinese Immersion Programs

    Minnesota’s language immersion programs have enjoyed consistent growth in student enrollment in elementary school programs and in program extensions to middle and high school content courses.
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    Minnetonka Public Schools Chinese Language Immersion Program

    Minnetonka Public Schools, a high-achieving school district in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, serves 10,000 students in grades K-12.
  • Raleigh Charter High School contestant participating in a speech competition
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    North Carolina Public Schools

    North Carolina has seen significant growth in the number of Chinese language classes offered in grades K-12, in immersion and other classes, face to face and online. A number of collaborative initiatives contribute to this growth.
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    Paint Branch Elementary School

    In 2010-2014, Prince George’s County Public Schools, a large urban school district in Maryland, started a STEM-focused (science, technology, engineering, and math) Chinese language program at Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park.
  • Kindergarten students enjoying a book together.
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    Pine Street School

    Pine Street School is a Green Ivy School in New York City. It serves 170 students from nursery school (age 2) to Grade 5 in an International Baccalaureate program. Instruction is 50-60% Mandarin immersion.
  • Kindergarten students enjoying a book together.
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    Pine Street School

    Pine Street School is a Green Ivy School in New York City. It serves 170 students from nursery school (age 2) to Grade 5 in an International Baccalaureate program. Instruction is 50-60% Mandarin immersion.
  • Using puppets and other props helps teachers make Chinese fun and engaging.
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    Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School

    The Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is a tuition-free, regional public charter school in Hadley, Massachusetts, that prepares students for academic and personal success through rigorous study in English and Chinese.
  • 4th grade Mandarin Immersion class (Portland Public Schools)
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    Portland Public Schools Chinese Program

    Portland Public Schools is home to an innovative K-12 Mandarin immersion program that has multiple points of entry and pathways to advanced Chinese language proficiency.
  • Post Oak Academy calligraphy
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    Post Oak Academy International Baccalaureate Chinese Immersion

    Post Oak Academy is a PreK–6 International Baccalaureate Chinese immersion public school in Lansing, Michigan. Supported by a unique array of community partners, the school delivers extraordinary learning outcomes for all students.
  • Presidio Knolls School Community Lunar New Year Celebration
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    Presidio Knolls School

    Presidio Knolls School in San Francisco is an independent pre–K–8 grade school where the convergence of progressive education and Mandarin immersion ignites curiosity, connectedness, and engagement in the world.
  • Fun in first grade at Scenic Park Elementary
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    Scenic Park Elementary School

    Scenic Park Elementary School, in Anchorage, Alaska, hosts the state’s first-ever Chinese immersion program.
  • Mandarin Immersion kindergarteners perform a song for Dearborn Park International School Multicultural celebration./stefanie Felix
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    Seattle Mandarin Immersion Programs

    Seattle Mandarin Immersion Programs include programs at Beacon Hill International School, Dearborn Park International School, and Mercer International Middle School.
  • Shu Ren upper-grade PYP students collaborating on a science project
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    Shu Ren International School

    Shu Ren International School is an independent school located in Berkeley, California. It is the first Mandarin immersion, International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) school in the state.
  • Happy Chinese New Year 2021
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    Tarwater Elementary School Dual Language Immersion Program

    Tarwater Elementary School, located in Chandler, Arizona, has the only Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in the Chandler Unified School District, which currently serves more than 45,000 students.
  • Student-led calendar time in 3rd Grade
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    Utah Chinese Dual Language Immersion Program

    The Utah Chinese Dual Language Immersion Program is in place in the following 12 districts across the state of Utah.
  • VAIS students with books
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    Verona Area International School (VAIS)

    Located within the Verona Area School District, currently the only public Chinese Immersion Charter School within the state of Wisconsin. Founded in 2010 and serving students in Kindergarten through grade 5.
  • Chinese III students at Blacksburg High School complete their online lessons.
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    Virtual Virginia

    Virtual Virginia is a program of the Virginia Department of Education, which offers Advanced Placement (AP®), world language, core academic, and elective courses to students across the Commonwealth of Virginia and the U.S.
  • Pre-K students with U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, China First Lady Peng Liyuan
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    Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School

    Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School is the only public elementary school in Washington, DC, to offer Mandarin Chinese language immersion. Yu Ying provides tuition-free, high-quality education to 551 students in grades pre-K–5.
  • Proud students at the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
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    West County Mandarin School

    West County Mandarin School is a public Mandarin immersion school in Richmond, California. The school currently serves students in K–3 (soon to Grade 8). The school follows a 50/50 immersion model in all grades.
  • Students at Mudanjiang Number 2 High School, Heilongjiang Province, use their language skills to play the game “Guess Who?” during the English Winter Immersion Camp. (Debora L. Nicholson)
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    West Virginia Department of Education

    The West Virginia Department of Education oversees more than 270,000 students in 55 school districts, and Chinese language and culture are taught in 30 schools in four school districts.
  • (Jennifer Hakes/Yinghua Academy)
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    Yinghua Academy Chinese Immersion Charter School

    Yinghua Academy, a National Blue Ribbon School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the first Chinese immersion public charter school in the United States. Yinghua serves over 700 students in grades K-8.
  • Yu Ming Charter School. (Alannala Photography)
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    Yu Ming Charter School

    Yu Ming Charter School is a tuition-free, K–8 public charter school in Oakland, California, the first public Chinese immersion school in the state.

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