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Outdoor High School is an
alternative high school Alternative High School (AHS) is a public senior high (secondary) school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; which teaches grades 10 through 12. AHS is currently located at the Clinton Ford Centre, which was home to the former Clinton Ford Elementary Sc ...
located in
Eugene, Oregon Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast. As of the 2020 United States Census, Eu ...
, United States. The school was created in 1997 by
Northwest Youth Corps The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...
with the purpose of combining service learning field studies and outdoor recreation with a traditional classroom setting. Outdoor High School is a fully accredited program that serves students from 9 school districts in
Lane County, Oregon Lane County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 382,971, making it the fourth-most populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Eugene. It is named in honor of Joseph Lane, Orego ...
. It offers a traditional diploma. Outdoor High School is an
AmeriCorps AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work prog ...
Program that employs on average five AmeriCorps members yearly. The student turnover rate is high due to dropouts and transfers to other schools. Students go on four camping trips per year, and have two field weeks consisting of either work or hands on learning projects in and around Lane County. There are six full-time administrative and teaching staff.


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* High schools in Lane County, Oregon Education in Eugene, Oregon 1997 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-school-stub