The Margarita Muñiz Academy is a Spanish language high school and is working to add seventh and eight grades by next year, in order for students to graduate with a stronger bilingual proficiency.
More children at Boston Public Schools will soon be able to join the district's flagship dual-language program.
"We want you to be here," Head of School and Founder Dania Vazquez said."That's perhaps the most important criteria."Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox."The need for this school is ever present," she said."We are a diverse country and we need to recognize that. This is an asset."
"We have students who are learning English for the first time," Vazquez said."We have students who are actually learning Spanish for the first time, and then we have students who are in the middle." "I feel like I developed a lot of skills that I need to speak good Spanish or professional Spanish," Perez said.
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