Dual Language School in West Contra Costa USD
Hi- My family is moving to Hercules from Oakland in the next few months. My son is in 1st trade and is currently enrolled in a dual language school in Oakland. We are looking for a dual language (Spanish/English) school in Contra Costa USD. We have heard mixed reviews about Stewart Elementary in Pinole, which would be the closest to us. Does anyone have feedback on Stewart Elementary or other dual language schools near Hercules? Our assigned school would be Ohlone Elementary in Hercules, which has good reviews. We are open to sending him there if we can't find a good dual language school. Does anyone have feedback on Ohlone Elementary? Thanks in advance for your responses. Brenda
Feb 2, 2022
Parent Replies
My kids went to dual immersion, Spanish/English, at Washington elementary in point Richmond. It’s a bit of a drive from Hercules but we had an overall good experience there, K -6. It feeds into Korematsu middle school where are the dual immersion continues but is much diluted.
we also had to drive them quite a ways every day to get them to Washington. We actually carpooled with some other kids part of that time. The main bummer of not having our kids go to their neighborhood schools is that they grew up not knowing any of the kids in the neighborhood. This made for some lonely days on vacation days when we weren’t out doing some thing else. But overall I would not have traded the experience. Washington’s student body, while we were there, was fully 2/3 transfer students from other parts of the district. Their dual immersion program follows the research as closely as is practical and I thought it was quite good.