What is El Marino Language School?
El Marino Language School is a public elementary school operated by the Culver City Unified School District. The school was originally built as a neighborhood school, but later closed due to declining enrollment. El Marino reopened in 1994 to house the district’s two elementary school Language Immersion programs, the Spanish Immersion Program [SIP] and the Japanese Immersion Program [JIP]. The goal of both programs is for students to master grade level content while learning to speak, understand, read and write in both English and the target language – Spanish or Japanese. Depending on the grade level, most instruction takes place in the target language. English Reading/Language Arts is taught according to program guidelines. Students are expected to master the District-adopted content standards in all academic areas.
