<p>Both my kids took/are taking Latin since 7th grade. (They both got exposed to French and Spanish in elementary school.) Mathson took AP Latin. Our high school is offering a class in elementary Greek this year in addition to Latin.</p>
<p>Latin is very popular at our public middle school and high school. The kids score high on national tests and win a lot of contests. The teachers are great; I think that is what makes the students love the Latin classes.</p>
<p>Mine both took 4 years of HS Latin through AP. Their public school also offers 4 years of German, Spanish, French and Japanese. The Japanese classes are very popular and the teacher is a native Japanese teacher. We’re all convinced Latin was a good choice.
Someone offers private Saturday classes for Mandarin.</p>
<p>My school district is expanding their entire language program. They now offer Spanish and Chinese classroom immersion to anybody who wants it from 1st to 6th grade where they will probably then have the option of obviously continuing into middle school and high school. I’m rather jealous because I’ve always wanted to learn Chinese. At least my sister can do it. </p>
<p>As for Latin, they are seeing a huge surge in the amount of students interested and have responded by adding Latin as an option for 6th grade language study that should continue onto the high school level in the future. In the past two years, every single student in our Latin program (56 kids) placed on the National Latin exam, so it’s really gaining attention. There are a ton of kids in the 6th - 9th grade really in love with Latin. It’s cute. Sextus, Cornelia, Marcus… they are doing a good job. 
And this is in a public school btw. Latin doesn’t have to be a private school affair anymore :P</p>
<p>S’s public middle school offered Spanish and Latin only; he took Latin. He’s now a sophomore in (public) high school and in his 3rd year of Latin, and will take AP Latin next year, so he tells me. The one language he really wants to take is German, which is not one of the six languages taught at his school, alas!</p>
<p>Russian is taught in at least two high schools in my district, possibly more, and the district has had a middle-school Russian program for years.</p>
<p>Our small district starts Latin in 7th grade - D took the first year in MS, then three years in HS, could not take AP Vergil due to scheduling and she misses it. One teacher teaches all the classes - she is constantly running back and forth between the schools and is such a saint! The interest has definitely grown here as well</p>
<p>my older daughter took required Latin in 6th & 7th grade at her private school. My younger D took Latin in 6th and 7th grade as well at her public school, but it was taught as part of language arts/social studies not as a foreign lang. ( her high school also offers Latin alng with Japanese, Spanish and French)</p>
<p>It is interesting that in Northern California few schools offer Latin and most have dropped German as well. Many of the schools now have Italian x4 +AP, and Mandarin.
They are having problems filling the french classes .
I get the AP teachers newsletter and last year they said they were dropping on of the AP Latin tests but I am not sure which one.</p>
<p>I took Latin I in my public school but there weren’t enough people signed up for Latin II the next year. At the other high school (private) I went to the year I got there they had just finished phasing out Latin in favor of Chinese.</p>
<p>S attended public school. He began taking Latin in 6th grade and continued until he graduated from high school.</p>
<p>S is currently taking AP Latin, but Latin is being phased out at his school because it is so difficult to find a Latin teacher who meets the “Highly Qualified” standards.</p>