Selected elementary and middle schools offer partial-immersion programs in French, Spanish, Japanese and German.
Students learn the foreign language while mastering the curriculum.
Gifted and Talented Programs are available for gifted and talented students, kindergarten through grade 12. High School for Science and Technology Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology offers a comprehensive college preparatory program emphasizing science, mathematics and technology. This magnet school has ranked first in the nation for total number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists. The International Baccalaureate Program, an internationally recognized pre-university course of study, is offered at Edison, Marshall, Mount Vernon and J.E.B. Stuart High Schools and at Robinson Secondary School. This two-year program has an intensive and comprehensive curriculum that enables its graduates to fulfill the requirements of several national systems of education, such as those of France, Germany and the United Kingdom.