Dual Immersion

• Dual Immersion programs facilitate biliteracy – the ability to speak, listen, read, and write proficiently in two languages.   
• The goal of dual immersion is to develop biliteracy, academic excellence, and positive cross-cultural and personal competencies.   
• This first iteration of Dual Immersion will be in Spanish. 

• DI is currently only offered at Lunada Bay.

PVPUSD will follow the one-way immersion which means that a vast majority of students speak the primary language (English) and are learning the target language (Spanish) together. This differs from a two-way model where 50% of students speak the target language (Spanish) and 50% speak the primary language (English). In this model all students learn to be biliterate in the target language.  

PVPUSD opted for Spanish for the following reasons: 

• Most readily available curricular resources and professional development for teachers  
• Adopted curriculum comes in Spanish, supplemental materials already available  
• Availability of Bilingual credentialed teachers in any language is hard to come by but Spanish is the most common and has largest pool  
• Collegiality of other Spanish Immersion teachers/schools  
• Natural pathways through intermediate and high school already  
• Can always build and develop over time 

1. A student must be enrolled/pre-enrolled in PVPUSD to be eligible to participate in the dual immersion program. For information about enrolling your student, click here. 
2. Between March 1 - March 31st submit a request to attend through the Aeries parent portal. Applicants will receive status notifications by end of April.  For more information about our intradistrict transfer process and guidelines, click here. 

1. The 2-Step Enrollment process must be completed prior to applying for the lottery.  
2. The application window will be March 1 - March 31st.   
3. Upon submitting your request, a confirmation email will be sent with further information to the submitter. 
   
4. Students will be notified of their application status by the end of April.  

• Priority enrollment will go to students who have Lunada Bay as their homeschool. 
• Spanish speakers do not get priority as it is a 1-way immersion, but they are not precluded from the program. 
• There will be a lottery for all other students in the District, if the class capacity is not reached with students in the residential boundaries of Lunada Bay. 
• Families that move into the district after March may enter the lottery in July, if space remains. 
• We do accept students that have moved into the District as transfers into the program, after kindergarten, only if space is available and the student has been previously enrolled in a Spanish dual immersion program. Documentation of participation in that program is required. We also require that students be assessed by one of our teachers to test their Spanish proficiency before being accepted to the program. Families must provide proof of residency in PVPUSD in order to be placed in the program, and enrollment must be completed before an assessment is offered.

• 6-year commitment  
• Same cohort of students 
• Learning development may look different than that of their English only peers 
• Leaving dual immersion before the end of 5th grade could impact promotion to the next grade level 

• We do accept students that have moved into the District as transfers into the program, after kindergarten, only if space is available and the student has been previously enrolled in a Spanish dual immersion program. Documentation of participation in that program is required. We also require that students be assessed by one of our teachers to test their Spanish proficiency before being accepted to the program. Families must provide proof of residency in PVPUSD in order to be placed in the program, and enrollment must be completed before an assessment is offered.