Prince William County Public Schools

World Languages Elementary Specialty Programs

World languages instruction in French or Spanish is available in five elementary schools strategically located throughout the school division. Student in grades 1-5 receive 45 minutes of instruction at least once each week. 

The program model, called content-related world languages instruction, is a research-based model that focuses on the reinforcement and integration of the key academic concepts included in the Standards of Learning for social studies, math, science, and language arts as is possible and linguistically appropriate in French or Spanish.

All students of these schools develop some communication skills in the target language and a much deeper understanding of the many cultures represented by the French and Spanish languages. The five goals of the National and State Foreign Language Standards are: communication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and communities which are the foundation of the program instruction integrated into the cross-disciplinary curriculum.

The early learning of any world language serves as a strong foundation for the future study of all other languages.

Note: Applications for this program are open for rising 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.

Program Type

Transfer Program – Students participating in this program will transfer to the program location for all courses and activities.  Express Bus Transportation is available to accepted students living outside the program location boundaries through Specialty Program Transportation. 

Program Locations (French)