2012 High School County Maps

The MELL project is providing the following county maps for Washington based on data from the Spring 2012 world language enrollments reported in the OSPI CEDARS database. For more information about CEDARS, visit https://www.k12.wa.us/CEDARS/default.aspx.

For specific data about world language enrollments by school, district, county, and language, download: CEDARS World Language Enrollments Spring 2012 (Excel).

Note: The file includes a number of tabs sorted by district and by language, plus individual tabs by language. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Michele Anciaux Aoki, World Languages and International Education Program Supervisor at OSPI, michele.aoki@k12.wa.us.

Jump to: At least 2 years | 4 or more years | 2 or more languages
Arabic ASL | Chinese | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Latin | Native American | Russian | Spanish | Vietnamese

In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 39 out of 39 counties reported offering at least two years of a world language.




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 32 out of 39 counties reported offering four or more years of the same world language (for example, students may have begun language study in middle school and continued through the AP level in high school). (2009: 29 out of 39)



In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 33 out of 39 counties reported offering 2 or more world languages at their schools. (2009: 33 out of 39 | Added: Pacific | Dropped: Lincoln)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 39 out of 39 counties reported offering Spanish. (2009: 39 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 34 out of 39 counties reported offering French. (2009: 29 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 30 out of 39 counties reported offering German. (2009: 21 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 25 out of 39 counties reported offering Japanese. (2009: 19 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 28 out of 39 counties reported offering ASL. (2009: 17 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 17 out of 39 counties reported offering Latin. (2009: 4 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 16 out of 39 counties reported offering Chinese. (2009: 5 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 9 out of 39 counties reported offering Native American Languages. (2009: 7 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 9 out of 39 counties reported offering Russian. (2009: 5 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 6 out of 39 counties reported offering Arabic. (2009: 1 out of 39)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 6 out of 39 counties reported offering Korean. (2009: Not listed)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 5 out of 39 counties reported offering Italian. (2009: Not listed)




In the 2012 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 1 out of 39 counties reported offering Vietnamese. (2009: Not listed)





2012 - High Schools

County 2012 # High Schools CEDARS Data
Adams 5
Asotin 2
Benton 13
Chelan 6
Clallam 9
Clark 23
Columbia 1
Cowlitz 9
Douglas 6
Ferry 3
Franklin 5
Garfield 1
Grant 12
Grays Harbor 11
Island 4
Jefferson 3
King 92
Kitsap 19
Kittitas 6
Klickitat 8
Lewis 12
Lincoln 7
Mason 4
Okanogan 9
Pacific 8
Pend Oreille 4
Pierce 42
San Juan 5
Skagit 6
Skamania 2
Snohomish 38
Spokane 29
Stevens 11
Thurston 16
Wahkiakum 1
Walla Walla 9
Whatcom 14
Whitman 9
Yakima 21
Total 485

*Note: # of High Schools in County counts all schools that were reported in the OSPI CEDARS data report of schools with world language enrollments in Spring 2012. Some were actually middle schools, but the students were able to earn high school credits so the schools were listed in the query.

Impact of Competency-Based Credits

Since 2011, students in Washington State have had the opportunity to take nationally available language proficiency tests to demonstrate their ability to read, write, listen, and speak in a language other than English. They can potentially earn from 1 to 4 high school competency-based credits in a world language. We are now seeing the impact of this change in at least two ways. First, languages such as Vietnamese, which were not taught in Washington schools now have students who have earned credit in them. Second, students in various places in the state may be tested in languages that are not taught in their schools and in this way, those languages now "appear" in the county maps. For more information about Competency-Based Credits, visit: https://www.k12.wa.us/WorldLanguages/CompetencyBasedCredits.aspx.