Wheaton Warrenville South High School

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Wheaton Warrenville South High School
Image:wwshs_seal.jpg
Motto: Commitment, Scholarship, Tradition, Integrity
Established 1992
Type Public secondary
Principal Dr. Dawn Snyder
Faculty 135
Students 2,431
Grades 9–12
Location 1993 Tiger Trail
Wheaton, Illinois USA
Campus Suburban, 51 acres
Colors Orange and Black
Mascot Tiger
Newspaper The Pride
Website www.wwshs.org

Wheaton Warrenville South High School, or WWSHS, and locally referred to as "South", is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Butterfield Road and Wiesbrook Road in the southwest corner of affluent Wheaton, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community Unit School District 200, which also includes Wheaton North High School.

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[edit] History

The building was originally completed in 1973 as Wheaton-Warrenville High school, to serve the growing populations in Warrenville and southern Wheaton. Ten years after its completion, the building was converted into Wheaton-Warrenville Middle School after contentious litigation whereby a collection of parents associated with Wheaton Warrenville south attempted to secede from District 200. Among other issues, parents attempting to secede were concerned about proposed district boundaries where students on the south side of town would be asked to drive past Wheaton Central on their way to attend Wheaton North. The litigation failed. In 1992, Wheaton Central High School campus closed and the building re-opened itself as a high school, establishing Wheaton Warrenville South High School. [1] However, district 200 elected to retain the Tiger mascot in lieu of the green and gold Wolverine that Wheaton Warrenville High School had used.

The building is comprised of five major pods: Grange, completed in 2005, and Tradition, Scholarship, Commitment, and Integrity, which are taken from the school seal.

In 1999, the Integrity wing was built in the southeast corner of the school to house the math department. It includes eleven new classrooms, a math lab, and a math office.

In 2002, The Tradition and Commitment pods, primarily housing the English and Science departments, respectively, underwent significant renovations with reconstruction of all second floor classrooms. More than $100,000 worth of technology was also upgraded in 2002, with all classrooms receiving at least one new Dell XP computer connecting to a new broadband internet access connection, Cable TV, accompanying DVD/VCR combo player. The computer labs were also updated and several carts of wireless internet laptops were added.

Wheaton Warrenville South installed solar panels on the roof of the school as an alternative energy source as part of a 2004 partnership with British Petroleum.[2] BP's North American Chemical headquarters is located approximately two miles south of the school in Naperville. The remaining energy comes from Commonwealth Edison, which primarily produces energy from nuclear and fossil fuel sources.

On April 1, 2003, residents of Community Unit School District 200 approved, by a vote of 10,173 to 6,518,[3] a $72 million bond referendum to add about 150,000 square feet of space and renovate both Wheaton Warrenville South, and its counterpart, Wheaton North.

The first phase of construction began in August 2003 and was completed in March 2005 and included 21 new classrooms with two resource centers to house the English and Foreign Language departments, two art rooms, a band room, an orchestra room, a choral room, and nine sound-proof practice rooms. In addition, the central office area was reconverted for the counseling center and the health office, while all other administrative offices were moved to the front of the building. A new commons area was constructed and the cafeteria underwent significant renovations.

The second phase began in spring 2005 and was completed by May 2006 and consisted primarily of renovations to the athletics wing and the construction of the field house. The library will undergo significant renovations in the summer of 2006.

On June 7, 2005, Herman Calloway, Sr, a construction worker for Hamilton Construction (contracted by Bovis Lend Lease), was killed while working on the construction of the field house, when the fifteen-foot deep trench he was in caved-in, causing traumatic head, neck and chest injuries. His son, Herman Calloway, Jr. was also injured in the collapse.[4]

[edit] Academics

In 2005, Wheaton Warrenville South had an average composite ACT score of 22.6, with two seniors earning a perfect ACT score, and ten students named National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. In 2005, Wheaton Warrenville South graduated 100% of its senior class. For the past three years, Wheaton Warrenville South has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.[5]

The staff is comprised of 135 teachers with an average teacher to student ratio of 1:18, and an average class size of 24.4.

The school day officially begins at 7:20 AM and finishes at 2:15 PM. There are seven class periods of approximately fifty minutes in length, and a 25 minute lunch hour. Each passing period is six minutes.

Students are required to successfully complete twenty-four credits, each course at .5 credit.

[edit] Athletics

2006 Football 8A State Champs!

Red Grange's 1920 Wheaton High School team (he is front row, third from left)
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Red Grange's 1920 Wheaton High School team (he is front row, third from left)

Wheaton Warrenville South has several sports teams. Wheaton Warrenville South's sports consist of:

The school also offers the following as club sports:

[edit] Activities

[edit] Notable alumni

Wheaton High School (1876-1925)

Wheaton Community High School (1925-1964)

Wheaton Central High School (1964-1992)

Wheaton-Warrenville High School (1973-1983)

(none-listed)

Wheaton Warrenville South High School (1992-Present)


  1. ^ Wheaton Warrenville South High School History
  2. ^ Wheaton Warrenville South and BP Solar Energy Partnership
  3. ^ High School Expansion
  4. ^ Man killed in trench collapse
  5. ^ Illinois School Report Card

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