The purpose of foreign exchange student programs is to enhance exchange students’ knowledge of American culture and language through active participation in family and school life and to enhance American knowledge of other cultures. In order to make this a positive experience for everyone involved, Jenks High School has established the following guidelines.

1. The sponsoring exchange program will be fully responsible for the selection of suitable students for participation in its program;

2. Selection will be limited to secondary students who have a sufficient command of the English language to enable them to function well in an English-speaking academic and community environment;

3. The sponsoring program will provide the school a copy of the agency’s current criteria for their exchange program and all available information concerning the prospective exchange student (transcript, health records, etc.);

4. Application deadline is July 1. No exchange student is to be assigned to a host family in the Jenks District until he/she has been accepted in writing as a student by the principal. 

5. Jenks High School has a limit of six (6) exchange students per year. No more than two (2) students shall be from the same country and no more than two (2) from the same program;

6. Placement arrangements will be made with a single host family for the entire academic year;

7. Exchange students of senior standing will be allowed to participate in all senior activities and go through the commencement ceremony. Students will not receive a diploma;

8. Exchange students will be enrolled for six (6) hours per day. They will not be enrolled in any world language course that provides instruction in their native language.

In addition, Jenks High School accepts and endorses the federal regulations of the United States Information Agency entitled, “Regulations Governing Designated Exchange-Visitor Programs.”

Revised by the Board of Education June 2003

Revised October 2013

Revised May 2021