When Julie Albers moved from her native Germany to Fort Collins with her family last year, she searched high and low for a quality — and more importantly, close — language immersion school for her 8-year-old son Louis.

With no German language enrichment programs at local schools, Albers started looking into Global Village Academy, which has campuses across Colorado. But, since the closest school was 50 miles away in Northglenn, she decided to enroll her son in the family’s local district.

Come August, that will change for Albers and other families across Northern Colorado as GVA opens its new Fort Collins location and students enroll in Mandarin, Spanish or German immersion classes.

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