The International High School of New Orleans

Language Immersion

One of the most important and exciting programs at the International High School is Language Immersion.  These are content area classes given completely in French or Spanish.  The Language Immersion process means that students can improve and master their chosen foreign language in an actual subject area.

For example, French Immersion is used for Social Studies.  The class is taught by a teacher that is fluent in French and knows the content area; thereby, increasing the students’ academic vocabulary in the foreign language.

Spanish Immersion is offered in Social Studies and some science classes.  We also offer Advanced Placement classes in Spanish for accelerated students.  All of the Language Immersion programs allow eighth grade students with prior experience from other language immersion schools, to continue this process as they transition into our ninth grade.

We also offer Spanish, French, Mandarin and Arabic as foreign language courses.