Student Exchanges » Community High School

At CHS, we value cultural literacy and strive to be both globally conscious and directly engaged with the wider world. As such, we provide a number of opportunities for students to travel both domestically and internationally through student exchanges, and to meet people from outside of Roanoke.

International Exchanges

Each year, CHS hosts several long-term foreign exchange students on our campus. These students live with host families in our community and attend classes for the entire academic year at CHS before returning to their home countries. Interested host families should contact the school.

Additionally, we offer regularly scheduled exchanges with both French- and Spanish-speaking countries for our current students. These exchanges are usually about two weeks in duration, and allow our students to both travel internationally, and reciprocally host the same international students and teachers here in Roanoke.
Domestic Exchanges

CHS is a member of the Network of Complementary Schools. This partnership allows our students to take time out of their regular academic schedule to visit schools in another part of the U.S., typically for about two weeks. We also host students from Network member schools at CHS; if you are interested in hosting a Network student, please contact the school.
Semester Programs

Our students have occasionally also sought out opportunities to study away from CHS for a semester at a time by applying to a semester program. These programs are application-based and independent from CHS (for both admissions and tuition/financial aid), and generally require that students are in very good academic standing to attend. If students are interested in applying to one of these programs, they should begin by discussing their plans with their academic advisors or one of the Directors. The Semester Schools Network is a useful place to begin research into these programs.