Summit Elementary

Summit Elementary is proud to offer a Spanish dual language education program to students in kindergarten-sixth grade. 

The mission of our Spanish Dual Language Education program is to promote biliteracy and bilingualism, high academic achievement and sociocultural competency. 

Research shows exposing students to language at an early age has many benefits. Younger children have an ability to learn languages quicker and can retain a lot more information. In addition:

• Students can be expected to reach high levels of world language proficiency.
• Dual-language learners demonstrate better attention control, memory, and problem-solving skills; as well as an enhanced understanding of their primary language. 
• Bilingual children develop a better working memory –- which holds, processes and updates information over short periods of time – than monolingual children.
• Immersion students are more aware of and generally show more positive attitudes toward other cultures and an appreciation of other people.
• English learner students in dual-language programs also have more success becoming proficient in English by the end of high school.

Registration for the Spanish DLE program begins in kindergarten.