Stanford University Online High School

Stanford Online High School
Location
Stanford University California United States
Information
Type	Private High School
Established	2006
Founder	Raymond Ravaglia
Director	Tomohiro Hoshi
Faculty	61
Enrollment	704
Mascot	Pixel
Newspaper	The "!"
Talk Show	Stanford OHS Pixel Talk
Website	ohs.stanford.edu

The Stanford Online High School (OHS), formerly known as EPGY (Education Program for Gifted Youth), is a private independent school for gifted students located within Stanford University. While the OHS operates as a six-year school, serving students in grades 7-12, because of their intelligent abilities that challenge them to take college level courses and some high school courses that will further their knowledge for their future. The current director is Tomohiro Hoshi. Jeffrey Scarborough serves as the Director of Curriculum, Meg Lamont as Director of Instruction, and Karina Momary as Director of Student Life and Community.

The OHS used to be part of the wider offerings of EPGY, and was operated as a program within EPGY. With the restructuring of EPGY into Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, Stanford OHS became fully separate in its administration from the legacy components of EPGY. Stanford OHS always had a separate and more rigorous application process than the online individual courses offered by EPGY, and the Stanford OHS community has the tight-knit identity one would expect of an independent school.

In April 2005, EPGY Executive Director, Raymond Ravaglia, proposed the idea of expanding EPGY's online course offerings into a full-fledged online school. This informal proposal, made to the Malone Family Foundation of Englewood, Colorado, was well received and the Foundation requested a full proposal. Over Summer 2005, Ravaglia fleshed out his ideas into a full-blown design for an online school for gifted students. In January 2006, EPGY received a substantial and generous gift from the Foundation to develop the school. Formally called "The Education Program for Gifted Youth Online High School at Stanford University," it is typically referred to as the EPGY OHS or Stanford EPGY Online High School, often just "OHS." The OHS officially commenced on September 7, 2006, gathering students in grades 10-12. The Online High School accepted thirty students for the inaugural year and projects an enrollment of up to six hundred full-time equivalent students in the years to come. In 2006 the Online High School received official accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The OHS was approved as an online provider by the University of California in 2008. Ninth grade was added for the 2008-09 academic year, and with the 2009-10 school year, supported by an additional gift from the Malone Family Foundation the EPGY OHS was able to add a middle-school component for students in grades seven and eight. In January, 2015, OHS became the first online school to be accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS).

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