Dual Language

• Students learn academic content in the target language (Spanish or Japanese).
• Students gain communicative proficiency in both English and the target language.
• English-speaking students and native-speakers of the target language are integrated in the classroom, promoting cross-cultural and linguistic cooperation and learning.

Spanish Immersion:

School Sites:

Information:

El Marino Language School (90:10)

11450 Port Rd. 310-842-4241

La Ballona Elementary School (90:10)

10915 Washington Blvd. 310 842-4334

• In kindergarten 90% of the instruction is conducted in Spanish and 10% in English. By 5th grade, 50% of the instruction is in Spanish and 50% in English

Japanese Immersion:

School Site:

Information:

El Marino Language School (90:10)

11450 Port Rd. 310-842-4241

• In kindergarten 90% of the instruction is conducted in Japanese and 10% in English. By 5th grade, 50% of the instruction is in Japanese and 50% in English.

Program

Information

Spanish Dual Language Program:

• Students are offered Social Studies and Spanish Language Arts in the target language.
• Students who select the academic language elective course have the option to take 0-period P.E. if they would like to take an exploratory elective in addition to their language elective.

Japanese:

• Students have the opportunity to maintain Japanese in an academic language elective course offered at the middle school.
• The 3-year course follows grade-level Language Arts standards and increases in rigor to increase student proficiency in the target language.
• Students who select the academic language elective course have the option to take 0-period P.E. if they would like to take an exploratory elective in addition to their language elective.

Program

Information

Spanish

• Two strands of Spanish are offered at the high school, a) sequential foreign language strand and b) a Nativos/ Immersion strand.
• Students who matriculate through the elementary and middle school Spanish program usually transition into the Nativos/ Immersion strand. Student placement will be determined by a placement assessment.  Students have the option to take Spanish up to AP Spanish and AP Literature. 
• Those who did not continue Spanish in middle school will be placed into the appropriate course based on a placement test.

Japanese:

• Students who matriculate through the elementary and middle school Japanese program have the option to continue Japanese and will be placed into the appropriate course based on an placement assessment. 
• Students who continue will have the option to take AP Japanese.