Dual Language K-8

Dual Language Learner Pre-Kindergarten Link to this section

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 Link to this section

  • 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