The classes now serve nearly 50,000 students with English immersion programs.
Public school districts have run French immersion programs since 1974.
The board also operates a French immersion program in a limited number of schools.
Now immersion programs provide an alternative education stream for many students.
Immersion programs have no negative effects on the cognitive development of the students.
Immersion programs have no negative effects on spoken skills in the first language.
It is a bilingual school providing a French immersion program.
Highland also offered a Spanish immersion program in the mid-1990s.
The year centers around an immersion program where children are expected to become fluent in English.
Transportation (buses) is provided for those in the french immersion program.