Lake Forest High School (Illinois)
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| Lake Forest High School |
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| Motto | Abeunt Studia in Mores (They leave, striving after morality) |
| Established | 1935 |
| Type | Public secondary |
| Faculty | 150 |
| Students | 1,749 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | 1285 N. McKinley Rd. Lake Forest, Illinois USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Royal blue and gold |
| Mascot | Scouts |
| Website | www.lfhs.org |
Lake Forest High School, or LFHS, is a public four-year high school located in Lake Forest, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It serves the communities of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Knollwood. It is fed by Lake Bluff Middle School, Lake Forest Country Day School, Saint Mary's and Deerpath Middle School.
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[edit] History
Originally built in 1935, the facilities have had substantial and continual renovation. The school now boasts state of the art science labs, a studio theater, an auditorium theater, a complete array of special education facilities, 8 computer labs and 3 mobile laptop carts, a state-of-the-art foreign language lab, a student publication center, photography lab, a television studio with a collection of 5,500 curriculum-related videotapes, a computerized library with CD-ROM information retrieval, a field house with climbing wall.
Every room has been outfitted with a ceiling-mounted projector within the last year. The school has recently spent $4 million renovating its auditorium. LFHS' field house was completed in the 1990s and is outfitted with a continually improving climbing wall, Mount Scout.
The grounds are well kept, and they include: A large front lawn, used for Field Hockey and other sports such as lacrosse and ultimate, and a full-sized track and Football field with 2 full sets of bleachers. Due to the school being situated very near residential areas, the city of Lake Forest does not permit the football team to use lights at the football field for night games. This issue is being addressed with the referendum, where a new Varsity field is to be constructed at the west campus.
The referendum passed by an overwhelming 2/3 majority, and renovations are set to take place in two phases. The first phase, to be completed by the 2007/2008 school year includes the addition of a music wing, and renovation of the west campus including construction of a Varsity field. The second phase, to be completed by August of 2008, will include academic renovations at the east campus, and construction of administrative offices at the west campus.
The 1980 film Ordinary People is set at Lake Forest High School, and parts of the film were shot at LFHS, although the swim team scenes were filmed at Lake Forest College.
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In 2005, Lake Forest had an average composite ACT score of 25.1, and graduated 99.8% of its senior class. It has been included in the "Top thousand" and "Most Successful" lists of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Parade magazine. The average class size is 19.3. Lake Forest has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.[1]
The staff is comprised of 149 teachers, of which 78% hold an advanced degree.[2] The average tenure of faculty members at Lake Forest High School is 9.9 years. Members of the faculty have been instrumental in the development of Advanced Placement courses, serve on a number of state curriculum committees, and have authored both articles in professional journals and textbooks.[citation needed]
In the past graduating class, 86% have enrolled in 4-year colleges and 5% have enrolled in 2-year Colleges. 94% of students took more units of mathematics than LFHS's minimum of three, and 30% of students took at least four years of English. Along with the typical course offerings, Lake Forest High School also covers Advanced Placement classes in: Biology, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Economics, Environmental Science, French V, French VI, German IV, Latin IV, Latin V, Literary Analysis and Criticism, Modern European History, Music Theory, Psychology, Physics B, Physics C, Political Science, Spanish V, Statistics, Studio Art, United States History, and World History.
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[edit] Notable alumni
- Charlie Finn, actor
- Tim Weigel, 1963, newscaster [1]
- Thierry J. Chaunu, 1974, president of Chopard USA Limited [2]
- Phil Rosenthal, 1981, columnist Chicago Tribune
- Vince Vaughn, 1988, actor [3]
- Dave Eggers, 1988, writer
- Rob Pelinka 1988, NCAA Basketball Star and Professional Sports Agent representing the likes of Kobe Bryant
- Don Tiffany 1988, actor - "Frasier", "Ocean's Twelve", Ally Mcbeal
- Michael Stahlschmidt, 1988, famous international sports photographer
- Alan Benes, 1990, MLB Baseball Pitcher
- Catherine Warren, 2002, Miss Illinois USA 2006
- Andrew Bird, 1991, musician
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| North Suburban Conference |
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| Lake Division: Lake Forest • Lake Zurich • Libertyville • Mundelein • Stevenson • Warren • Zion-Benton
Prairie Division: Antioch • Grant • Lakes • North Chicago • Round Lake • Vernon Hills • Wauconda |
