| Amigos School | |
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| Location | |
| 101 Kinnaird Street Cambridge, MA 02139 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | bilingual, primary, public |
| Established | 2001 |
| School district | Cambridge Public School District |
| Principal | Deborah Sercombe |
| Faculty | 31[1] |
| Grades | K-8 |
| Enrollment | 315[1] |
| Information | (617) 349-6567 |
| Affiliations | Shore Educational Collaborative |
| Website | http://www.cpsd.us/amigos/ |
The Amigos School is a dual-language bilingual primary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Spanish-immersion program began in 1986 at the Maynard School and became an autonomous school within the Cambridge Public School District in 2001.
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The Amigos School began as a Spanish immersion program in 1986 at the Maynard School. During the 1990s it outgrew its allotted space at the Maynard building, housing its K-3 students at Maynard and grades 4-8 at the Robert F. Kennedy School building until the grades were consolidated at Kennedy.
The program became an autonomous school within the Kennedy School building in 2001 by a vote of the Cambridge School Committee.[2] Marla Pérez-Selles, assistant director of the Cambridge Public School District's bilingual program, was appointed the first principal of the school.[3]
Bilingual students housed at the Longfellow School were incorporated with Amigos in 2002 and in the 2003-04 academic year, as a result of the School Consolidation Plan passed by the Cambridge School Committee, the Amigos School moved to the King School building.[4]
The Amigos School uses a dual-language immersion model, which gives students half of their instruction in one language and half in another language.
The school enjoys a high level of community involvement in day-to-day activities at the school, such as "reading buddies" that visit the school weekly to read aloud to students.[5]
After school programs offered to the community and students of the Amigos and King Schools include Artes Por Las Tardes, Science Club for Girls, and classes sponsored by the Cambridge Performance Project. The school also has a CitySprouts garden.