A Cambridge school will be one of the first in Massachusetts to offer a dual-language immersion program in Mandarin Chinese as early as next year.

With funds from a federal grant program, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School plans to expand its Ni Hao (Hello!) Mandarin Chinese program to include a dual-language immersion component.

“This is pretty exciting and pretty ground-breaking for Massachusetts,” said Gerald Yung, the principal of the school. “We think the Chinese immersion model would be a very strong model.”

The grant will help the Putnam Avenue school to create and implement a dual-language immersion Mandarin Chinese program over the next five years.

“Students will maximize their learning potential by becoming proficient speakers, readers and writers of Chinese and English while realizing their academic potential in all of their academic subjects,” the school said in a press release.

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