Dual Language Immersion

The immersion programs have no formal criteria for enrollment.

Maxwell: Grades K-1 are admitted based on a lottery draw. Students in grades 2-5 with reading, writing, speaking and listening skills at designated levels can test in if there is room.

Cardinal Valley & Liberty: Incoming students may choose either the immersion track or regular kindergarten.

Bryan Station: The mission is to provide an integrated multicultural learning environment that fosters the development of traditional basic skills as well as communication in Spanish. The goal is proficiency in Spanish as a second language.

Visit our Application page for the latest details, including the application window and a link to the online form.

Note: Students currently participating in the elementary or middle school Spanish Immersion Program do not need to apply for continuation. However, if a student wishes to enter the program for the first time at the middle or high-school level, they must inquire at the school and must be able to pass verbal and written tests in Spanish and English.

The K-12 Spanish Partial Immersion Program offers elementary students a chance to start learning a second language at an early age. 

At Maxwell Elementary, the entire student body is part of the Spanish immersion program.

Liberty Elementary has an immersion strand where some students spend half of the day immersed in Spanish while learning math and science content and half the day getting instruction in English for language arts and social studies. The foreign language immersion teacher teams with the grade-level English teachers to integrate the state's core content.

Cardinal Valley Elementary, immersion participants study all core content in both Spanish and English.

Spanish Immersion Program students from the elementaries continue on to Bryan Station Middle, where they take math, science, social studies, and language arts in Spanish. At Bryan Station High School, immersion students are offered advanced and AP Spanish courses, as well as advanced biology, chemistry, and physics in the target language.