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Oyster-Adams Bilingual Elementary School:
With two campus locations in Washington, DC, Oyster-Adams Bilingual Elementary School offers a nationally and internationally recognized bilingual (English / Spanish) program for grades Pre-K to eighth. Our Oyster Campus is based on Calvert Street and our Adams Campus is located on 19th Street, NW in Washington, DC. All instruction and school activities are conducted in a dual-language immersion environment, with equal weight given to learning in English and in Spanish. Both Oyster's faculty and its student body are balanced 50%-50% between native English and native Spanish speakers.

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In addition, by enrolling children from many neighborhoods, nationalities, cultures, and economic circumstances, Oyster provides a heterogeneous social environment that is essential to its multicultural mission. Oyster enjoys an unusual dual status as a DCPS neighborhood public school and as a school entirely devoted to a specialized program. 

Bilingual Education Program (Grades Pre-K-8th):
- Oyster is an example of a 50 / 50 two-way dual immersion bilingual model.
- This means that students receive 50% of instruction in English and 50% in Spanish.
- It is different from typical ESL pull-out programs in that Spanish-speaking English language learners receive support in their first language while learning a second language.
- Each classroom at Oyster has two teachers: one a native Spanish speaker, and one a native English speaker. Each teacher is responsible for teaching language arts in his / her native language.
- The teachers share the responsibility for teaching the content area subjects: math, social studies, and science.