Preparing Your Child To Become A Global Citizen Of Tomorrow

Our mission at CommuniKids is to prepare young children to become the global citizens of tomorrow by creating a joyful, playful, and nurturing environment that immerses students in a second language. Our program strives to instill the disposition, knowledge, and skills required to succeed in a highly interconnected world.

CommuniKids is a language immersion school offering preschool, weekly classes, afterschool care, and summer camps — with Spanish, French, and Mandarin programs.

CommuniKids Language Immersion Preschool

Speaking two or more languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. Research shows being bilingual improves cognitive skills unrelated to language, stimulates creativity, and even helps shield against dementia in old age.

Our Spanish, French, and Mandarin preschools provide language immersion in a joyful, nurturing environment. We partner with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to provide Free Pre-K at our DC centers for 3 and 4 year old residents of the District of Columbia.

Six families. Six toddlers. Two parents who understood that the “window of opportunity” for language learning was open. Founders Jeannine Piacenza and Raúl Echevarría founded Caterpillar Cooperative Preschool in 2003, which grew into CommuniKids in 2005 — offering Spanish immersion classes.

In 2007, CommuniKids expanded to Falls Church and added Mandarin, French, and Arabic. By 2009, two full-time preschool programs were established in DC and Falls Church, and in 2012 both schools earned NAEYC accreditation — a distinction held by only about 8% of U.S. preschools.

Today, several of our teachers have been part of CommuniKids since the beginning — some as former students, now fully bilingual or trilingual young adults.