2019 High School County Maps
The MELL project is providing the following county maps for Washington based on data from the Spring 2019 world language enrollments reported in the OSPI CEDARS database. For more information about CEDARS, visit https://www.k12.wa.us/data-reporting/reporting/cedars.
For specific data about world language enrollments by school, district, county, and language, download: CEDARS World Language Enrollments Spring 2019 (Excel).
Impact of World Language 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 any number of world languages. Competency-based credits allow for an alternative path for students to fulfill revised state graduation requirements that necessitate students to graduate with at least 2 world language credits.
District reporting of competency-based credits has not been consistent, so variations from year to year may reflect the data reporting, but not the actual testing in the districts. Specifically, the following languages were reported in 2017 but not in 2019: Afrikaans, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chuukese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Fulani, Gujarati, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Lithuanian, Mandinka, Marathi, Marshallese, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pohnpeian, Persian, Punjabi, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Tigrigna, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Wolof.
For more information about Competency-Based Credits, visit: OSPI Website, Competency-Based Credits.
Note: In the descriptions of the maps below ''Added'' means that in 2019 the county had districts that reported enrollments in this language, but in 2017 did not. ''Dropped'' means that in 2017 the county had districts that reported enrollments in this language, but in 2019 did not.
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Tagalog |
Vietnamese
| At least 2 years 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 39 out of 39 counties reported offering at least two years of a world language. (2017: 39, 2013: 39, 2012: 39, 2009: 39)
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| 4 or more years 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 27 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). (2017: 28, 2014: 28, 2013: 29, 2012: 32, 2009: 29 | Added: Whitman | Dropped: Pend Oreille, Stevens)
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| 2 or more languages 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 35 out of 39 counties reported offering 2 or more world languages at their schools. (2017: 37, 2014: 37, 2013: 37, 2012: 33, 2009: 33 | Added: None | Dropped: Columbia, Ferry)
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| Spanish 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 39 out of 39 counties reported offering Spanish. (2017: 39, 2014: 39, 2013: 39, 2012: 39, 2009: 39)
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| French 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 33 out of 39 counties reported offering French. (2017: 32, 2014: 32, 2013: 34, 2012: 34, 2009: 29 | Added: Pend Oreille | Dropped: None)
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| German 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 25 out of 39 counties reported offering German. (2017: 27, 2014: 30, 2013: 30, 2012: 30, 2009: 21 | Added: Pend Oreille, Whitman | Dropped: Asotin, Grant, Kittitas, Pacific)
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| ASL - American Sign Language 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 25 out of 39 counties reported offering ASL. (2017: 25, 2014: 24, 2013: 27, 2012: 28, 2009: 17 | Added: Chelan, Lincoln, San Juan | Dropped: Columbia, Jefferson, Wahkiakum)
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| Japanese 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 18 out of 39 counties reported offering Japanese. (2017: 19, 2014: 20, 2013: 24, 2012: 25 , 2009: 21 | Added: Franklin, Jefferson, Mason, Pacific | Dropped: Clallam, Island, Klickitat, Okanogan, Skagit)
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| Chinese 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 11 out of 39 counties reported offering Chinese. (2017: 13, 2014: 17, 2013: 22, 2012: 16, 2009: 5 | Added: Mason | Dropped: Adams, Clallam, Island)
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| Latin 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 9 out of 39 counties reported offering Latin. (2017: 8, 2014: 16, 2013: 13, 2012: 17, 2009: 4 | Added: Adams, Clark, Spokane, Whatcom | Dropped: Grays Harbor, Island, Pierce)
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| Native American Languages 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 13 out of 39 counties reported offering Native American Languages. (2017: 11, 2014: 9, 2013: 9, 2012: 9, 2009: 7 | Added: Grant, Pierce, Skagit | Dropped: Ferry)
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| Russian 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 8 out of 39 counties reported offering Russian. (2017: 10, 2014: 9, 2013: 11, 2012: 9, 2009: 5 | Added: San Juan | Dropped: Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom)
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| Arabic 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 1 out of 39 counties reported offering Arabic. (2017: 4, 2014: 3, 2013: 5, 2012: 6, 2009: 1 | Added: None | Dropped: Benton, Clark, Snohomish)
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| Italian 2019 - High Schools |
In the 2019 OSPI CEDARS data, high schools in 2 out of 39 counties reported offering Italian. (2017: 5, 2014: 5, 2013: 5, 2012: 5, 2009: Not listed | Added: None | Dropped: King, Okanogan, Snohomish)
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