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A Pathway Built to Last in Central Point

In Jackson County, Central Point School District serves just under 5,000 students, representing a community rich in language, culture, and lived experience. Across the district, students speak 20 languages, and classrooms reflect a wide range of identities and learning journeys.

It is within this context that Central Point made a deliberate, long-term commitment to multilingual education. In 2013, the district launched its Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program grounded in a simple belief: language is not a barrier to overcome, but an asset to be nurtured.

More than a decade later, that commitment has grown into a full K–12 pathway—one designed to support students academically, culturally, and socially from their earliest school years through graduation.Central Point remains the only district in the region offering a dual-language pathway that spans kindergarten through high school, with its first graduating cohort set for spring 2026.

As the district prepares to celebrate this milestone, Title III and Two-Way Immersion Coordinator Tess Siemer and district leaders remain focused on what comes next—deepening impact, strengthening pathways beyond high school, and continuing to center student experience in every decision so that language, belonging, and opportunity remain at the heart of the system.

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Great to see the original Hanby building put back into use, I graduated from eighth grade there many years ago...