Stanford Online High School

Stanford Online High School is an independent school located at Stanford University for intellectually passionate students in grades 7–12. Founded in 2006 as a three-year high school, and subsequently expanded to include grades 7–9, Stanford OHS is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

The mission of Stanford Online High School is to create a worldwide learning community of diverse, intellectually passionate students and teachers. Through vibrant seminars, the rigorous curriculum challenges students to reason analytically, think creatively, and argue critically. Beyond the classroom, collaborative extracurricular activities cultivate lasting relationships among students and teachers. The school’s supportive environment fosters independence, strength of character, and a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. While online, Stanford OHS is first and foremost a school that draws strength from its students and teachers.

• It is a school for gifted students, for intellectual risk takers, and for those who are engaged in significant pursuits beyond the classroom.
• It is a school for instructors unparalleled in their expertise who have passion for teaching these students in this environment.
• It is a school located within Stanford University, and thus, at the forefront of learning.

It is this combination of students, instructors, and place that makes Stanford OHS a school unlike any other.

Stanford OHS was founded at Stanford University in 2006 with a gift from the Malone Family Foundation. It began as a three-year high school comprising a worldwide community of highly motivated students and teachers. Central to our mission was the creation of an innovative online program of study, one that evoked the University’s dynamism and provoked the discourse of the best brick-and-mortar classes. We succeeded, producing in the heart of Silicon Valley one of the nation’s first independent online high schools. Today, Stanford OHS is a part of Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, which serves academically talented, intellectually curious pre-college students.

The Stanford OHS curriculum goes beyond the norm of satisfying admissions standards at top colleges and universities around the world. It prepares students to excel at those institutions and to make a smooth transition into working in those demanding academic environments while encouraging intellectual risk-taking and life-long learning.