Newest update of the Mandarin Immersion school list – We’re up to 348 schools in the United States
You can find the list by clicking the Download button below. The changes over the past two years are below that in text format.
March 2022 – Additions
California
Avenues: Silicon Valley
K – 8, private. San Jose, CA.
This is the first West coast outpost of New York’s Avenues: The World School, which opened in 2011. It’s opening a middle school first, grades 6 – 9, a rarity in new schools.
Bell Tower School
K-8 Private, Alhambra, CA
ShuRen School
San Jose Campus.
Long in Berkeley, is opening a San Jose campus 2022-2023
Santa Fe Computer Science Magnet School, Monrovia Unified School District
148 West Duarte Road, Monrovia, CA
The Middle School the district’s MI program feeds to.
Rondo Elementary School, Eastvale, CA
New K – 5 50/50 Mandarin immersion program beginning in the fall of 2021.
Frontiers Academy
Has moved from Anaheim to nearby Costa Mesa, California
Kennedy Middle School
The Mandarin immersion program of the Redwood City School District, which begins at Orion Alternative Elementary School (formerly John Gill Elementary) reached sixth grade and moved to Kennedy Middle School in the 2021-2022 school year. The program will continue at Woodside High School in 4 years.
Minnesota
Lakes International Language Academy
K-12 charter school, Forest Lake, Minn.
Started 2004-2005, also has Spanish immersion track
North Junior High School
6 – 8, opened 2013-2014 school year, St. Cloud, Minn.
This is the continuation of the Mandarin immersion program at Guang Ming Academy @Madison Elementary
Apollo High School
9 – 12, St. Cloud Minnesota
This is the continuation of the Mandarin immersion program that begins at Guang Ming Academy. The first cohort arrived in the 2017-2018 school year.
New Jersey
Maurice Hawk Elementary School, West Windsor, NJ.
Program launched 2018-2019 school year. Has now reached 4th grade.
New York
Pine Street School
Private,K-5, Manhattan.
Launched in 2017-2018. Also has Spanish immersion track
Oregon
Harriet Tubman Middle School, 6 – 8
Portland, Oregon
Utah
Tooele Junior High School, Tooele, Utah
Program reached 7th grade in the 2021-2022 school year.
The program will continue at Tooele High School in the 2024-2025 school year.
Texas
International School of San Antonio
Originally a French immersion school, it added a Mandarin immersion track in the 2021-2022 school year.
Washington
Bel-Red Bilingual Academy
0 – 8, Bellevue, Washington, launched 2019-2020
Wyoming
CY Middle School
Casper, Wyoming. Program progressed from grade school 2019-2020
CHANGES
E.E. Waddell Language Academy, a K-8 public school in Charlotte, NC, has changed its name to South Academy of International Languages (SAIL)
CLOSURES
Horseshoe Trails Elementary School
At the end of the 2020-2021 school year the Cave Creek Unified School District closed the Mandarin immersion program at Horseshoe Trails, which was founded in 2015. It has just gotten to middle school.
Unable to open: CE Academy
This charter school outside Raleigh, NC had planned to open this fall, but COVID-19 made that impossible. They haven’t given up but it’s been a rough year.
Science Language and Arts International School – CLOSED
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 
Elizabeth,
Great and thanks for this update! I’m coming out to SF next week with our new Head of School visiting a few schools. Are you available for lunch or dinner on 3/23 or 3/24? It would be great to catch up!
Sharon
Hi. You’re missing International School of Denver. They offer Chinese, French, and Spanish.
It’s actually there, right in Denver.