Cherokee Immersion School

[3] Students must be members of a federally recognized tribe, and an application process is used as class size is limited.

[6] In June 2019, the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes declared a state of emergency for the language due to the threat of it going extinct, calling for the enhancement of revitalization programs.

[8] The Cherokee language immersion school educates students from pre-school through eighth grade.

[10] Ultimately, the school made a C, or a 2.33 grade point average on the state's A-F report card system.

[13] Situated in largest area of Cherokee speakers in the world, the opportunity for that campus is for students to spend the day in an immersion school and then return to a Cherokee-speaking home.