At this elementary school, all students spend half their school week learning in English, and the other half learning in Spanish.
Students come from homes where the first language is either English or Spanish.
At this urban P-8 school, all students are immersed in Spanish from their first day in kindergarten. Pre-K through fourth grade students spend eighty percent of the day learning in Spanish, and fifth graders spend sixty percent of the day in Spanish. Sixth through eighth graders spend their day split fifty percent each in Spanish and English. Students in this magnet school are selected through a lottery of all applicants, so some students are native English or Spanish speakers, while other students speak a third language at home.