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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For MCPS you must live within Montgomery County to be eligible.  For a guaranteed seat, you must live within the elementary school's boundary lines.  If you are outside of those boundary lines and if there are extra seats available, you can then apply to the lottery to try to get one of the seats.  The Winston Churchill HS (Potomac) pyramid, which is #1 both in Montgomery County & Maryland and is ranked pretty high nationally, has Chinese immersion in Potomac Elementary School.  For Richard Montgomery (Rockville) there's full International Baccalaureate, including Spanish immersion, with College Gardens ES.  Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS has Spanish immersion with Rock Creek.  All are excellent schools, and if you have more than one child once the first child is accepted the other children are also able to attend.  However, the lottery is just that - a lottery, and the odds are not in your favor.  Also, due to overcrowding concerns at B-CC the PTA is currently talking about only allowing the kids that get in through the lottery to attend through middle school, requiring all high school students live within the physical school boundaries (this is not the current policy); not sure if this is also being discussed at the other schools. There are other programs in the county which you may want to look into depending on your child's interests, like CETA for the arts.[/quote]

College Gardens is Chinese (not Spanish) and I wouldn't recommend it. They are so overcrowded (6-7 K classes this year) and their middle school is just awful.  They only teach in Chinese during "English time."  Math, art, PE, music, outside specials are all English spoken. It is nowhere near a full immersion program. I agree with another poster. Unless you have a parent or a tutor who can speak the language it is very tough anyways  [/quote]

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