Language Immersion Schools

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion on a 90/10 model, starting with core subjects almost entirely in Spanish and easing toward a bilingual balance in the upper grades, with Latin American literature, history, and art woven through. Admission is by neighborhood boundary or PPS lottery with 50% of immersion seats held for neighborhood families, and the pathway continues at West Sylvan Middle School.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion charter that opens at 90% Spanish and moves toward a balanced bilingual model by upper elementary, with Singapore Math and NGSS science both taught in Spanish. Admission is by independent lottery with priority for siblings and Beaverton district residents, and a second campus is planned for Tigard opening K–2 and adding a grade each year.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion on a 90/10 model, with 3 ESL teachers supporting a student body that is 25% English learners and a campus built around a native plant garden, a multicultural food garden, and an outdoor classroom. Half of immersion seats are held for neighborhood families and the rest fill by PPS lottery.

Beaverton's tuition-free wall-to-wall Spanish immersion school, where dual language is the standard curriculum for every student rather than a separate strand, running 90/10 in kindergarten and reaching 50/50 by 4th grade. Roughly 70% of students are native Spanish speakers, so the 2 groups serve as language models for each other, and the pathway continues at Meadow Park Middle School.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion running as 1 of 2 tracks on a shared campus, with 90/10 instruction in kindergarten moving to 50/50 by 4th grade and no translation or repeated lessons between languages. Immersion seats fill by PPS lottery with half reserved for neighborhood families, and the pathway continues through Ockley Green Middle School to Roosevelt High School.

Tuition-free 6–8 Spanish immersion continuation where students arriving from Rigler take Spanish language arts and social studies in Spanish and join neighborhood peers for their remaining core classes. The track most often continues to Leodis V. McDaniel High School, and the wider school is known for band, orchestra, and choir plus a WEB program pairing 8th grade mentors with incoming 6th graders.

Tuition-free K–8 Spanish immersion on a 90/10 model that reaches 50/50 by the middle grades, sharing a campus with a neighborhood English program. Half of immersion seats are held for neighborhood families and the rest fill by PPS lottery, and the K–8 structure keeps students in one community through 8th grade before Roosevelt High School.

Tuition-free 6–8 Spanish immersion continuation where students from Sitton and James John spend half the instructional day in Spanish and can carry the sequence toward Oregon's Seal of Biliteracy. The school employs 4 ESL teachers in a building where 20 home languages are spoken, and AVID runs across all 3 grades with a dedicated instructional coach.

Starting 2026-27, a Spanish Immersion Middle School: a 90/10 dual-language continuation track for 6th graders coming out of K-5 immersion programs elsewhere, set within a Catholic parish school.

Tuition-free 9–12 and the endpoint of the westside Spanish immersion pathway, carrying students from Ainsworth through West Sylvan along with other southwest feeders. Immersion students continue through AP Spanish, AP Spanish Literature, and Heritage Speakers coursework toward the Oregon Seal of Biliteracy, on a 20-acre campus scheduled for a rebuild opening in fall 2029.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion open only to neighborhood families, opening at about 90% Spanish in kindergarten and shifting toward 50/50 by the upper grades. Neighborhood families still apply through the PPS lottery in ParentVUE during the February to March window and hold the highest priority for seats, and the pathway continues at George Middle School.

Tuition-free 6-8 with Spanish Language Arts and Social Studies taught in Spanish and a pathway that feeds Franklin High School toward the Oregon Seal of Biliteracy. Students learn in a fully modernized campus that reopened in 2021, one of the newest middle school buildings in the district.

Tuition-free K–5 that converted to a 100% Spanish immersion school in 2023-24, so every classroom runs the 90/10 model easing toward 50/50 in the upper grades. Neighborhood families register directly for guaranteed kindergarten seats while everyone else applies through the PPS lottery. The pathway continues at Kellogg Middle School.

Tuition-free 6–8 Spanish immersion continuation carrying the Beach Elementary cohort and also open to eligible native Spanish speakers under the district's two-way model. The school community speaks 14 languages, and 8th graders are assigned to a regional Spanish immersion high school by home address rather than by the middle school they attended.

Tuition-free K–5 running two-way Spanish immersion school-wide, with native English and native Spanish speakers learning literacy, math, and science together in both languages. It is a school-wide Title I campus with a majority Hispanic student body, the immersion pathway continues at Beaumont Middle School.

Tuition-free 9–12 and the north Portland endpoint of the Spanish immersion pathway, drawing from Beach and César Chávez through Ockley Green and from James John and Sitton through George. Roosevelt enrolls native Spanish speakers alongside immersion graduates and moves both into AP Spanish Language and AP Spanish Literature, with the Oregon State Seal of Biliteracy available at graduation.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion open only to neighborhood residents rather than the district-wide lottery, running 90/10 in kindergarten and reaching 50/50 by 4th grade with content taught in each language without translation. Neighborhood families opt in through the PPS lottery window in ParentVUE, and the pathway continues at Roseway Heights Middle School.

Tuition-free K–5 Spanish immersion running 1 dual language classroom at every grade beside a separate English track, with a Head Start immersion class so families can start in Spanish before kindergarten. 100% of immersion seats are reserved for Sitton neighborhood students.

Tuition-free PK–5 Spanish immersion on an 80/20 two-way model, run as a strand beside English-only classes so native Spanish and native English speakers learn side by side, with 3 dual language classes to 1 English-only class at most grades. Seats fill through Beaverton's dual language application, with a home-language lottery and priority for in-boundary families and siblings

Tuition-free 6–8 Spanish immersion continuation for the Lincoln cluster: the Ainsworth cohort continues through 3 grade-level immersion teachers, native Spanish speakers may test in, and 8th graders take Spanish II. The whole school runs on the IB Middle Years Programme framework, with AVID and a daily 30-minute advisory alongside.

Tuition-free K–5 Mandarin immersion on a 50/50 model that builds bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural students across core subjects. Now a co-located campus, the Mandarin strand admits by PPS lottery and feeds a full K–12 pathway through Harrison Park Middle School and Cleveland High School.

Tuition-free 9–12 Mandarin immersion continuation inside an IB World School where every junior and senior takes IB courses as the core program rather than as enrichment. Students can pursue the full IB Diploma or individual subject certificates for college credit, and admission is by neighborhood boundary or immersion continuation.

Tuition-free PK–5 Mandarin immersion on a 50/50 model, with a direct pipeline from Albina Head Start's Mandarin preschool and a lottery grouped by current pre-K students and siblings, transfer Chinese speakers, Head Start families, and general applicants. The Mandarin track continues at Harriet Tubman Middle School.

PPS's tuition-free Mandarin DLI continuation from MLK Jr. Elementary, feeding into Jefferson High School for advanced Chinese studies, inside a small, historically rooted middle school with a district MakerSpace, dance studio, AVID, and deep community partnerships.

PPS's tuition-free Mandarin DLI continuation from Clark and Woodstock Elementary, split-feeding to Cleveland and Jefferson for high school Chinese studies, with AVID Schoolwide, IRCO-run SUN programming, and a recently renovated campus.

Tuition-free K–8 Chinese immersion charter with a model that shifts by grade band: 65% Chinese in K–2, an even split in grades 3–5, and 35% in middle school as students prepare for high school. Chinese and English teachers pair to synchronize lessons against ACTFL standards, Chinese-speaking staff work the front desk and lunch service, and the 2023-24 4th grade cohort ranked 1st statewide in both ELA and math.

Tuition-free 9–12 continuing the Spanish immersion pathway from the Ainsworth and West Sylvan cohort, with advanced IB Mandarin available for students carrying that language forward. Every student takes IB, through the Middle Years Programme in 9th and 10th grade and IB courses in 11th and 12th, on a campus modernized in 2023 with an Innovation Center and MakerSpace.

Tuition-free K–5 where each Mandarin immersion grade pairs a Chinese DLI teacher with an English DLI teacher, so core subjects are taught in both languages. Seats fill by PPS lottery, the parent nonprofit Shu Ren of Portland backs the program, and the pathway continues through Harrison Park Middle School to Cleveland High School.

Private PK-5 French immersion, taught by native speakers on the French national curriculum, with English, Spanish, and Arabic added developmentally. It is the only school in the area holding both U.S. and French accreditation, and the calendar runs in 7-week intensive cycles punctuated by Immersion Through Culture weeks of circus arts, cooking, sports, and art.

Independent K–5 French immersion accredited by the French Ministry of Education, teaching the French national curriculum at roughly 75% French and 25% English through the elementary years. Teachers hold French Ministry credentials, the progression follows the classic maternelle to primaire cycles with a 5th grade trip to France.

Tuition-free K–8 French immersion charter and IB Primary Years Programme school, with 80% of the day in French through 4th grade and Singapore Math throughout. Admission is by an independent blind lottery outside the PPS ranked choice system, with no preference for fluency or heritage speakers, and Spanish joins as a third language in 3rd grade.

PPS's tuition-free 9-12 continuation site for the Japanese DLI pathway, set in one of Portland's biggest high schools — a recently rebuilt campus with AP courses, dual credit through PCC, career-technical programs, and full PIL athletics and performing arts.

Tuition-free 6–8 and the middle chapter of Portland's Japanese immersion pathway, carrying the Richmond Elementary cohort toward Grant High School. The program culminates in an 8th grade research residency trip to Japan, and students sit within small learning communities called lodges, with a WEB program pairing 8th graders with incoming 6th graders.

Tuition-free K–5 and Portland's flagship Japanese immersion school, running a 50/50 model since 1989 in which math, science, and social studies are taught across both languages. Admission is by PPS lottery at kindergarten with upper-grade entry only by proficiency when seats open, and the pathway runs through Mt. Tabor Middle School to Grant High School.

Tuition-free 6–8 and the middle chapter of Portland's Russian immersion pathway, receiving the Kelly Elementary cohort and letting students earn 4 high school credits in Russian by the end of 8th grade. The track continues at Franklin High School toward the Oregon Seal of Biliteracy and eligibility for Portland State University's Russian Flagship Program.

Tuition-free K–5 and the home of Portland's only Russian immersion program, opening at 90% Russian in kindergarten and reaching 50/50 by 4th grade. The program serves native Russian and English speakers together and continues through Lane Middle School to Franklin High School, with graduates of the full K–12 sequence eligible for Portland State University's Russian Flagship Program.

Tuition-free K–5 and the district's home for Vietnamese immersion, launched in 2012 on a 50/50 model: students spend half the day with a Vietnamese-speaking teacher and half with an English-speaking teacher, with each grade taught by a paired team across all core subjects. No prior Vietnamese is required and seats fill by PPS lottery. The school hosts an annual Tết festival, and feeds Roseway Heights Middle School and McDaniel High School.

Tuition-free 9–12 hosting 2 immersion continuations at once: Russian, which follows a single guaranteed pathway from Kelly Elementary through Lane Middle School, and Spanish, where 8th graders are assigned to a regional high school by home address rather than by the middle school they attended. Franklin also teaches French, German, and Mandarin, on a campus that reopened in 2017 after modernization.

Independent PK–8 with full French immersion from preschool through 5th grade taught by native speakers, inside the IB Primary Years Programme. The prorgam continues with a choice of French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, or an English-focused international track at Gilkey International Middle School. The IB Middle Years Programme runs in 5 parallel languages against one shared curriculum, and every student also begins a new language at the beginner level.

Independent PK–5 where children learn core academics through full immersion in Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish with native-speaking teachers, spending 80% or more of the day in the target language starting at age 3. The IB Primary Years Programme frames the curriculum, and every 5th grader travels to a country of their program language on a capstone trip included in tuition.

Tuition-free 9–12 and the only PPS high school hosting 3 dual-language pathways at once, adding Mandarin in 2025-26 alongside its established Spanish and Vietnamese continuations. It is also the district's most linguistically diverse campus, with 43 languages spoken and the Portland International Scholars Academy for newcomer students based on site.

Tuition-free 6–8 carrying two immersion continuations side by side, Spanish and Vietnamese. Students in both take Social Studies and Partner Language Arts in the partner language, the rest of the schedule in English. Spanish arrives from the district's 90:10 elementary model and Vietnamese from the 50:50 model; both narrow to a single elective in high school. Families organize through a PTA and a Hội Phụ Huynh Vietnamese parent organization.