Dual Language K-8

Dual Language Learner Pre-Kindergarten

Students Served

  • English Learners
  • Bilingual students
  • English proficient students

Language Instruction
70% of the time in Cantonese and 80% of the time in Spanish.

Pathway Eligibility
All students are eligible regardless of language proficiency.

    Schools with CANTONESE Dual Language Learner Pre-Kindergarten

    • ER Taylor Elementary PK
    • Las Americas Early Education School at Moscone
    • Noriega Early Education School
    • Commodore Stockton Early Education School

    SPANISH

    • Bret Harte Elementary School        
    • Bryant Elementary School
    • César Chávez Elementary School 
    • Fairmount Elementary School        
    • Las Americas Early Education School at Moscone
    • Paul Revere Elementary School

    K-5 Elementary Dual Language Immersion (DLI) 

    Students Served

    • English Learners
    • Bilingual students
    • English proficient students

    Language Instruction

    Start with 80% instruction in pathway language in K and decrease to 50% by 5th grade.

    Pathway Eligibility

    Based on DLI research, district will assign an appropriate balance of students who are proficient in the pathway language (2/3 to 1/2) and students who have not demonstrated proficiency in the pathway language (1/3 to 1/2). To demonstrate proficiency, students who indicate a language other than English on the home language survey are assessed in the respective pathway language.

     

    Language

    K-5 and K-8 Schools with Dual Language Immersion Pathway

    CANTONESE

    • Chinese Immersion School at De Avila
    • Garfield
    • West Portal

    KOREAN

    • Claire Lilienthal

    MANDARIN

    • Starr King
    • Jose Ortega

    SPANISH

    • Alvarado
    • Bret Harte
    • Buena Vista Horace Mann
    • Daniel Webster   
    • Fairmount
    • Leonard R. Flynn
    • Marshall
    • Monroe
    • Paul Revere

    K-8 Alice Fong Yu Chinese Immersion Pilot Program

    Students Served

    • English Learners
    • English proficient students

    Language Instruction
    Start with 80% instruction in pathway language in K and decrease to 50% by 5th grade.

    Pathway Eligibility
    The pilot implements a program that evaluates an alternative student ratio between 1/3 and 2/3 of English Learners and 2/3 and 1/3 of English proficient students.

     

    Language

    School with K-8 Immersion Pilot Program

    CANTONESE (includes one course in Mandarin in grades 6-8)

    • Alice Fong Yu K-8

    This page was last updated on August 27, 2019