Eugene International High School
Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in International Studies
Eugene
International High School (EIHS) is a teacher-developed school-within-a-school
across three high school campuses in that serves approximately 1,300
students in grades 9 to 12. Established 20 years ago, the required core
curriculum centers around culture, history, economics, and political
and belief systems. Each grade level focuses on a particular region of
the world through coursework and students develop a culminating
research project and engage in internationally oriented community
service during their senior year. Students are required to take at
least three years of French, Spanish, Japanese or German, and Eugene
also offers the option of immersion study in Spanish or French through
which students take four content classes in their target language in
conjunction with four years of language classes. The school will soon
add a Chinese language immersion option through a new collaboration
with the Center for Applied Second Language Acquisition at the
University of Oregon. Graduates earn either an International
Baccalaureate degree or an International Studies Certificate of
Advanced Mastery, the latter of which was developed by Eugene and has
since been adopted by the state of Oregon.