Office of
Multilingual Curriculum & Programs

High Schools offering French as a World Language

Bartram HS
Ben Franklin HS
Bodine HS
Central HS
Franklin Learning Ctr
Lincoln HS
Masterman
Northeast HS
Parkway CC
South Phila HS

FLES/FLEX Programs for French

Hamilton ES
Masterman MS

AP Programs for French

Central HS
Masterman HS

IB Programs for French

Bodine HS
Central HS

High Schools offering Chinese as a World Language

Academy @ Palumbo
Carver Engineering
Central HS
Furness HS
Girls’ High
Lincoln HS
Northeast HS

AP Programs for Chinese

Academy at Palumbo
Carver Engineering
Central HS
Furness HS
Girls’ HS
Northeast HS

IB Programs for Chinese

Central HS
Girls’ HS

High Schools offering Latin as a World Language

Central HS
Girls’ HS
Lincoln HS

IB Programs for Latin

Central High School

High Schools Offering Italian as a World Language

Bodine HS

Central HS

Northeast HS

IB/AP Programs

Central HS

Northeast HS

Portuguese

Portuguese is offered at Bodine HS up to the IB level

American Sign Language (ASL)

American Sign Language is offered at Lincoln High School.

Lincoln HS is also home to an academy for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

Arabic

Arabic is offered at Motivation HS, up to level 4

Russian

Russian is offered at Washington HS up to the IB level

Spanish

Academy @ Palumbo
Bodine HS
Central HS
Constitution HS
Kensington Health Sciences
Masterman HS
Northeast HS

French

Bartram HS
Ben Franklin HS
Bodine HS
Central HS
Franklin Learning Ctr
Lincoln HS
Masterman
Northeast HS
Parkway CC
South Phila HS

Chinese

Academy @ Palumbo
Carver Engineering
Central HS
Furness HS
Girls’ HS
Northeast HS

Italian

Central HS
Northeast HS

The following schools offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, and Language Acquisition courses that support this curriculum. More information about IB Language can be found at:

https://ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/language-acquisition/

Bodine HS

Spanish

Portugese

Central HS

Spanish

French

Chinese

Latin

Italian

Girls’ HS

Spanish

Chinese

Hill Freedman HS

Spanish

Northeast HS

Spanish

Italian

Washington HS

Spanish

Russian

Spanish as a Heritage Language

The course Spanish for Native Speakers is designed to offer a World Language option for students who have proficiency in Spanish from experience outside the classroom. This course is designed to meet the needs of learners in the school’s community and foster the acquisition of other dialects, variants, or registers of Spanish, cross-curricular academic skills in Spanish, and expanding the students’ domains of proficiency.

Arts Academy at Rush HS
Edison HS
Furness HS
Kensington Health Sciences HS
Kensington HS
Lincoln, Abraham HS
Northeast HS
Kensington CAPA
Philadelphia Military Academy HS
Frankford HS

Chinese as a Heritage Language

The course Chinese for Native Speakers will be offered at select schools for School year 2020-2021! Students with a background in Chinese will develop their proficiency with different registers and modes of Mandarin Chinese.

Central High School