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Abstract: The author examines aspects of the Concept «Stakeholders» within the framework of educational discourse in the context of American High School. Educational discourse overlaps with economic discourse, for example, the administrative genre relies heavily on concepts used in management and marketing. The texts on high school theme show recurrence of lexical and semantic discourse characteristics, which describe the discourse participants (stakeholders), their value systems and profiles. The features, which help to classify components of the institutional discourse are identified in the differentiation of internal and external stakeholders based on both universal and special factors. The author contributes to the building of the descriptive model and the taxonomy of the educational discourse. Key words: institutional discourse, educational discourse, economic discourse, classification, taxonomy, high school, stakeholder