 Students are required to take an AP, IB, or Post Secondary course at least one time before their graduation.The Columbus Alternative High School was conceived in 1977, initially as part of a plan to save the original Columbus North High School, now Columbus International High School from closure.As part of its plan to comply with a 1977 court order to desegregate Columbus high schools, the Columbus Board of Education had announced that many students would be bussed to other neighborhoods beginning in the fall of 1978, and that certain schools, including North High School, would be closed.