This year there are nine Chinese immersion schools among California Distinguished Schools
Out of 356 California Distinguished Schools announced this month by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, nine were either Mandarin or Cantonese immersion.
They include:
Alameda
Yu Ming Charter, K – 8
Alameda County Office of Education
El Dorado Hills
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter, K – 8
Buckeye Union School District
Palo Alto
Palo Alto Unified School District
Redwood City
Redwood Shores School District
San Bernardino
Chino Valley Unified
San Francisco, California
Chin (John Yehall) Elementary (Cantonese bilingual)
Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila (Cantonese immersion)
San Francisco Unified School District
San Jose
John Muir Elementary School (Cupertino Language Immersion Program)
Cupertino Union School District. (CLIP is the oldest public Mandarin Immersion program in California and the second oldest in the country.)
San Mateo
San Mateo-Foster City School District
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 