Carl Sandburg High School
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| Carl Sandburg High School |
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| Established | 1954 |
| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Deborah Boniface |
| Faculty | 226 |
| Students | 3,771 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | 13300 S. LaGrange Rd. Orland Park, Illinois |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Royal Blue, and Gold |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Yearbook | The Poet |
| Newspaper | The Aquila |
| Website | sandburg.d230.org |
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Carl Sandburg High School, Sandburg, or CSHS, is a public four-year high school located at the intersection of La Grange Road and 131st Street in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Consolidated High School District 230, which also includes Victor J. Andrew High School and Amos Alonzo Stagg High School.
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[edit] History
Construction of Carl Sandburg High School began in May 1953 and by September 1954, classes were in session.[1] Carl Sandburg himself attended the school's dedication in 1954.[2] School legend suggests that Carl Sandburg, the school's namesake, once visited the school but lacked any form of identification. He was told to leave. Later that day, with an ID, he was welcomed in and an assembly was held in his honor.[citation needed]
[edit] Academics
In 2005, Sandburg had an average composite ACT score of 22.3 and graduated 98.1% of its senior class. The average class size is 19.2. Sandburg has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.[3]
Sandburg has been named one of Newsweek's top 1,000 second-tier schools on several occasions in recent years.
- 2003, Sandburg was ranked 607 [1]
- 2005, Sandburg was ranked 757 [2]
- 2006, Sandburg was ranked 967 [3]
[edit] Athletics
Sandburg has 30 athletic teams, of 14 boys and 16 girls teams, which play in the Southwest Suburban Conference, SouthWest Suburban Conference - Blue Division (football), and Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Sandburg's mascot is the Eagle.
Since 1985, Sandburg athletic teams have won 152 IHSA Sectional Championships and 9 State Team Championships.[4]
[edit] Sandburg Fight Song
- Stand up for Sandburg
- The mighty gold and the blue;
- Let's cheer our team to VICTORY
- And to this emblem we'll be true
- Come on and win now, you Eagles;
- You've got to fight on for our fame.
- Our team will fight on to VICTORY
- Go Sandburg High and win this game!
[edit] State Championships
Team
- 1994 Boys Soccer
- 1996 Boys Volleyball
- 1999 Boys Volleyball, Girls Volleyball
- 2000 Boys Volleyball
- 2002 Boys Baseball, Boys Soccer
- 2003 Boys Soccer
- 2005 Boys Wrestling
- 2006 Boys Wrestling, Competitive Cheerleading
Individual
- Boys Cross Country,
- 1976 (Class AA) Tom Graves
- 1977 (Class AA) Tom Graves
- Boys Track & Field
- 1976 (Class AA) 2-mile run, Tom Graves
- 1977 (Class AA) 1-mile run, Bob Hicks
- 1977 (Class AA) 2-mile run, Tom Graves
- 1978 (Class AA) 1-mile run, Tom Graves
- 1978 (Class AA) 2-mile run, Tom Graves
- Boys Wrestling
- 1961 127 lb, Ron Semetis
- 1963 133 lb, Jim Semetis
- 1964 165 lb, Alan Bulow
- 1977 (Class AA) 138 lb, Scott McGhee
- 1978 (Class AA) 112 lb, Don Stevens
- 1978 (Class AA) 155 lb, Jeff Guidish
- 1979 (Class AA) 119 lb, Don Stevens
- 1984 (Class AA) 126 lb, Joe White
- 1993 (Class AA) 103 lb, Tommy Lee
- 1999 (Class AA) 215 lb, Brian Corcoran
- 2001 (Class AA) 171 lb, Pete Friedl
- 2005 (Class AA) 103 lb, Michael McAuliffe
- 2005 (Class AA) 125 lb, Brandon Precin
- 2006 (Class AA) 130 lb, Brandon Precin
- 2006 (Class AA) 135 lb, Conrad Polz
- 2006 (Class AA) 140 lb, Matt Cusick
- Girls Gymnastics
- 2003 Vault, April Hurt
- Girls Track & Field
- 1978 (Class AA) High Jump, Carole O'Connor
- Individual Events (Speech)
- 1997 Dramatic Interpretation, Jocelyn Prince (*co-champion)
- 2002 Original Oratory, Lisa Anne Berube
- 2004 Humorous Interpretation, Beth Palecek
- 2006 Humorous Interpretation, Stan Polit
[edit] Activities
[edit] Theater
- Fall Play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Spring Musical, Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
- Fall Play, Through Our Eyes by Cast
- Spring Musical, Oliver! by Lionel Bart
- Fall Play, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- Spring Musical, Gypsy by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
- Fall Play, Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler and Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang
- Spring Musical, My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe
- Fall Play, The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
- Spring Musical, West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim
- Fall Play, You Can't Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
- Spring Musical, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Herbert Kretzmer
- Fall Play, Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
- Spring Musical, Jekyll & Hyde by Steve Cuden, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse
- Fall Play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
- Spring Musical, Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- Fall Play, The Bacchae by Euripides
- Spring Musical, Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
- Fall Play, The Complete History of America (Abridged) by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor
- Spring Musical, TBA
[edit] Notable alumni
- Jeff Alm, 1986, professional football player with Houston Oilers, 1990-1993.
- Bill Rancic, 1989, winner of The Apprentice: Season One.
- Pat Fitzgerald, 1993, Head football coach of Northwestern University (youngest Division I-A head football coach).[5]
- Justin Hartley, 1995, actor on Passions and Smallville.
- Brad Fiorenza, 1998, cast member of The Real World: San Diego (2001).
- Rachel Braband, 2000, cast member of The Real World: Back to New York (2001).
[edit] References
- ^ Student Handbook
- ^ http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=schools&id=3999239
- ^ Illinois School Report Card
- ^ http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=schools&id=3999239
- ^ Northwestern hires Fitzgerald as football coach
