Full Mandarin Immersion School list
Clicking on the link below will open an Excel spread sheet containing all the Mandarin immersion K – 12 schools we’ve been able to find in the United States and Internationally. It was last updated on Aug. 7, 2012.
We’ve limited the list to full-time immersion schools which teach at least 50% of the time in Mandarin. That’s why there are no preschools or Saturday school on it.
Thanks
Beth Weise, Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Click the link below to open the full Mandarin Immersion School list:
The first page is the national list, the second page is international schools.
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If your schools is not listed, or is listed incorrectly, please refer to the list of questions below. Answer as many of them as you can and email to me and I’ll update the list. If you don’t know all the answers, don’t worry. We’d rather list a school even with a few boxes empty!
School Name
School District name
Address
City
State
Phone
Grades at school
Public/private/charter?
Date the Mandarin immersion program began (Kindergarten only, not preschool)
Percentage of the day taught in Mandarin/English.
Whole school or strand within a school?
Do you teach Simplified or traditional characters? [you can tell if in the word for school they write it 学校 (simplified) or 學校 (traditional)]
Classroom in Mandarin per grade.
One-way or two-way immersion?
Website address.
Other languages offered? (i.e. some schools have multiple immersion strands.)
Is the school art of the Flagship – Chinese Acquisition Pipeline consortium?
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I read with interest the article in the Wall Street Journal which lead me to this website and your listing of Chinese immersion schools.
My children attended the Chinese International School in Hong Kong, http://www.cis.edu.hk/. Each of my daughters studied at CIS for 14 years. As Eurasians, half Chinese / half British, born and educated in Hong Kong and having both obtained the International Baccularete after graduating high school, both were offered places at prestigious universities in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. For their own reasons, possibily to discover their British heritage, both elected to do their undergraduate degrees in Britain. Whilst my youngest daughter is about to start the last year of her degree, my eldest daughter who completed her post graduate studies is now an attorney (solicitor) based in Hong Kong for an international law firm.
There are now several international (private fee paying school) schools in Hong Kong which follow the CIS model of full teaching in dual language, rather than offering Chinese as a second or third language. CIS celebrated it’s 25th anniversary a few years ago and whilst you are all embarking upon a challenging and difficult route for your children, it is a rewarding one and one with a very positive future for your children as the Hong Kong (and other similar schools through out Asia) experience shows.
Also add All Soul’s Catholic School in Alhambra, CA
Beaufort County School District, SC. has K-3 at Broad River Elementary School and 1-3 at Hilton Head Island Elementary School.