Cheryl Hunt Clements Richard Benjamin Walhalla High School South Carolina Walhalla High School, located in rural Oconee County, South Carolina, is a nationally recognized leader in linking school to career experiences. The advanced course work is a result of post secondary articulation agreements with Hamilton Career Center and Tri-County Technical College. Walhalla is organized in career clusters along College Prep and Tech Prep continuum to encourage appropriate preparation for career options. Middle school Career Specialists help students and parents become familiar with format and curricular options while Career Specialists at the High School help students make course selections and provide work related information workshops. The International High School is a multilingual institution of 450 students representing over 50 countries and over 40 different languages.
Admission is limited to immigrants who have been in the country less than four years.
Goals are to promote language development in both English and the students' native languages together with academic subject mastery. The school is organized into six interdisciplinary teams that use a thematic approach to the teaching of science, math, language arts, history and technology. Language is viewed as central to the learning process and every faculty member view themselves as language teachers. Students are evaluated on the bases of a portfolio that demonstrates their progress towards accomplishing tasks while meeting the New York City and State standards. Today, Mason is filled to capacity, has waiting lists at most grade levels and, has increased student achievement in reading consistently over a three-year period.