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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 exp
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.
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.
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 educatio
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Logansport Community School Corporation (LCSC) is located in Logansport, Indiana, and serves approximately 4,200 students in Kindergarten through grade 12.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
Seattle Mandarin Immersion Programs include programs at Beacon Hill International School, Dearborn Park International School, and Mercer International Middle 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
