Oak Forest High School

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**Oak Forest High School**
Established	1971
School type	Public secondary
Head of School	David A. Wilson
Students	1,417
Athletic Conference	Illinois High School Association (IHSA)
Colors	Black, Gold
Mascot	Bengals
Location	Oak Forest, Illinois

Oak Forest High School is a public high school located in Oak Forest, Illinois. It is part of Bremen Community High School District 228 which also includes Tinley Park High School, Hillcrest High School and Bremen High School. It serves most of the community of Oak Forest, as well as portions of Midlothian and Crestwood in Bremen Township in the south suburbs of Chicago in Cook County.

[edit] History

Oak Forest High School opened in 1971 as a remedy to the excessively high numbers of students attending the three other existing high schools in the district. It was originally built intended to serve a temporary increase of the number of the local school-age population, but has maintained a regular sized student body since then.

Over the summer of 2004, there was construction on the school to add a new IMC (instructional materials center) and to provide more classroom space to solve the approaching five-year deadline of the outdoor portable classroom mobile units (commonly referred to as the "trailers").

[edit] Academics

In 2005, Oak Forest High School had an average ACT score of 20.6 and graduated 98.1% of its senior class. 35 students were recognized as Illinois State Scholars and 56 Students received the President's Award for Educational Excellence. The average class size was 17.2.