Bijou Community School TWBI program enrollment period opens

Do you want your child to learn in English and Spanish? Bijou Community School is now accepting commitment forms for its Two-Way Bilingual Immersion TK and kindergarten classes for the 2025-2026 school year!

Bijou Community School brings together English and Spanish-speaking students TK through 5th grade in the Two Way Bilingual Immersion (TWBI) program by supporting them to learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages. The program has three goals: bilingualism and biliteracy, high academic achievement in English and Spanish, and sociocultural competency.

The TWBI program at Bijou is a 90:10 model, meaning that 90 percent of instruction in TK and Kindergarten is in Spanish and 10 percent is in English. Each year the percentage of English increases until in 5th grade 50 percent of instruction is in English and 50 percent is in Spanish. Bijou Community School also has an active parent volunteer program which includes classroom volunteering and 16 different volunteer committee opportunities. They have a Boys and Girls Club on site for after-school care.

The Bijou TWBI program admits students by lottery. Students with birthdays between September 2, 2019 and September 1, 2020, are eligible for Kindergarten next year. Students with birthdays between September 2, 2020, and September 1, 2021 will be eligible for TK.

Interested parents should call Martha Ubias or Julia Cedano at (530) 543-2337 and submit a completed TWBI commitment form to the office. Please visit Bijou.ltusd.org for more information about our program. Tours are available and commitment forms are due on February 14, 2025.