Set against the backdrop of a suburban Chicago high school, AMERICAN HIGH follows the lives of a group of real students as they deal with real-life conflicts -- both at home and at school -- during the 1999-2000 school year. The series is an unprecedented exploration of these students' world as they enjoy some of the best times and face some of the toughest decisions and harshest realizations of their young lives with both candor and humor.

These aren't actors. The situations aren't contrived. This isn't scripted. You can't make this stuff up. From the first day of senior year through graduation, AMERICAN HIGH is culled from ten months of footage shot by Cutler and his production team. Also featured in the show are "video diaries" shot by the students themselves.

This unique combination of professional footage and student-shot video provides a window into what it's like to be a teenager growing up in America today.

R.J. Cutler, Erwin More, Brian Medavoy and Cheryl Stanley serve as executive producers of AMERICAN HIGH, which is produced by Actual Reality Pictures in association with 20th Century Fox Television.