The International High School of New Orleans

The International High School of New Orleans is Louisiana’s only charter school to offer a full college preparatory curriculum with a focus on international business studies, as well as both French and Spanish Immersion Classes.

IHS is a Type-2 Charter School that is open to all Louisiana residents and operates under a charter granted by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Mission of the International High School (IHS) is to foster a diverse community of learners through rigorous academic programs that promote an understanding of business, multi-cultural awareness and foreign language fluency, while preparing our students to succeed in a global economy.

IHS promotes an understanding of business, multicultural awareness and foreign language fluency, but prior foreign language skills are not required to apply. We are currently one of the few schools in the United States offering Arabic, taught by a native speaker.   International High School is the only one of its kind for a public high school with language immersion and international business education in the New Orleans area. The school, in its third year, is currently composed of the 9th, 10th and 11th grade levels. Twelfth grade will be added for the 2012 – 2013 school year.