The school's website says that it has a dual language immersion program in Korean, so that may very well be the reason. (schooldatanerd.com)
We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten. (cnbc.com)
This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping Latino and other children from immigrant households improve their English fluency. (dropoutnation.net)