
Spanish Academy of Asheville
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Grades PreK-5
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About Spanish Academy of Asheville
Spanish Academy of Asheville was started by Maria Salomé Loomis Ramirez, an Ecuador-born educator who taught Spanish immersion in Buncombe County Schools from 2013 to 2021, and her husband Taylor Loomis. We are a private, full Spanish immersion school where children begin a second language as young as age 2, and teachers stay in Spanish during instruction instead of translating.
Our preschool has one classroom for ages 2 to 3 and three multiage classrooms for ages 3 to 5, each named for an animal and a continent. Children attend three, four or five days, on a morning schedule (8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) or a full day (8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.), with early care from 7:15 and extended care until 5:30. Two playgrounds keep the youngest children apart from the 5-year-olds.
Our five-day Spanish Immersion Kindergarten teaches the same North Carolina standards as other schools, and kindergarten families can apply for the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship. An after-school Spanish Club runs until 5:30, and summer camp weeks explore gardening, Legos, art, ocean life, STEM and sports. Children from any home language are welcome, and families pack snacks and lunch.
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- Private
- Preschool (Ages 2-5)
- Elementary (K-5)
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- Spanish immersion
- Multiage classrooms
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- Preschool
- Spanish immersion kindergarten
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- Spanish Club after school
- Summer camp
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- Preschool
- Spanish immersion kindergarten
- Before and after care
- Spanish Club after school
- Summer camp
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- North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship
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