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Show Foreign stadeets listed for Alpine District :this school year there are 35 foreign students attending public schpols in the Alpine School District. The group represents 16 foreign countries and has students attending classes at all three levels of the school system. According to Stan Stubbs, Director of Pupil Services for the district, all of the foreign students are sponosred by exchange agencies agen-cies such as Rotary International, the Educational Foundation or the American Intercultural Student Exchange Program," said Stubbs. "The others are hosted by individual in-dividual families." At present, the foreign students who attend school in this country do not have to pay tuition. They do, however, pay the same student fees as other pupils attending public schools. The date released indicates that the large number of exchange students (30) are attending school at the senior high level. There are three foreign students in the junior high setting, and two at the elementary level. Of the 16 countries represented, Japan sponsors the most students with eight. Mexico is second with four. Other countries with students attending classes in the district are: Western Samoa, Australia, Peru, Germany, Brazil, Hondurus, Chile, Denmark, Truk, France, China, Sweden, Yugoslavia and Costa Rica. Orem High boasts the most foreign students with 11; Mountain View High follows with seven; American Fork High is next with six; Lehi High has four; while Pleasant Grove High has two. Lehi Junior High is hosting two exchange students and Lakeridge Junior High has one. The only elementary schools in the district with foreign students are Orem Elementary and Orchard Elementary, with one each. |