Newly-discovered program! Initiated in 2009.

Our program is a combined FLEX/FLES where grades K-5 have Russian as a 30-minute resource once a week, and grades 6-8 have Russian as a mandatory elective every other day in 90-minute blocks. For lack of knowing any better, I placed all of our elementary students in the same Level 1 category as our non-heritage, first year middle school students. I can send you more detailed information in a spreadsheet, splitting students by grade level and level of Russian.

The middle school courses at our school are:
Russian 101 (first year non-heritage)
Russian 102 (second-year non-heritage)
Russian 201 (third year non-heritage and first year heritage semi-fluent)
Russian 301 (all years heritage fluent)

The state of Florida recently (May 2011) revised its foreign language standards to align them more with what is being used nationally, and this has resulted in our need to restructure our middle school program. Our district considers our 3-year middle school sequence (101, 102, 201) to be equivalent to the Russian I and II being taught in Florida high schools.

Heritage Russian speakers represent about 20% of total enrollment. Students are placed in the appropriate level via an oral proficiency interview at the beginning of the school year. Each student takes Russian for the entire duration of the school year.