Minooka High School

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Minooka Community High School
Motto Gooooood Morning Minooka!
Established 1958
Type Public secondary
Principal Robert Williams
Faculty 85
Students 2,071
Grades 9–12
Location 301 S. Wabena
Minooka, Illinois, USA
Campus Rural
Colors Orange, Black
Mascot Indians
Newspaper 'Peace Pipe Chatter'
Website www.mchs.net

Minooka Community High School, or MCHS, is a public four-year high school located in Minooka, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Minooka Community High School District 111.

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[edit] History

The current high school is placed on the corner of Wabena and McEvilly. The doors to the high school opened in 1971 and have since grown to 2,000+ students over the last 36 years. Minooka Community High School District 111 is a mid-sized school district located in the far southwest suburb of Minooka. The district,totaling over 90+ square miles, is largely comprised of the communities of Minooka and Channahon, and also includes portions of Shorewood and Joliet.


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[edit] Current Campus

Outside of transfers, students come to Minooka Community High School from three feeder school districts, Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201, Channahon School District 17, and Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C. Additions have been made to the building over the years. The first addition added hallways to the ends of the existing hallways to create two square hallways coming off of the main walkways. With that addition in the 90's Minooka added more technology and classroom space. Next came the new physical education department space added in the last 4 or 5 years. This addition created more room for PE classes along with driver's ed classrooms and more. The other big addition was building a new lunch room. This class panel, rounded room is the location of lunch, after school programs, athletic practices, concerts, musicals & plays and the homecoming dance. In the front of the building are trailers that are used for extra classroom space.

Minooka Community High School is in the process of supplementing its current building in Minooka with a $52.4 million building to be located in the Village of Channahon which will house Freshmen and Sophomores when it opens in 2008. At that same time, the current Minooka campus will house Juniors and Seniors. When district enrollment approaches 3,000 students (estimated at 2014), Phase II of the Channahon campus will begin, resulting in a full, stand-alone high school for 2,000 students. The current Minooka campus will also be retrofitted at that time to increase its capacity to house 2,000 students. Both buildings will then house a total of 4,000 District 111 students.

[edit] Academics

In 2006, Minooka had an average composite ACT score of 20.8, and graduated 97.6% of its senior class. The average class size was 21.7. [1]

[edit] Athletics

Minooka competes in the Southwest Prairie Conference and Illinois High School Association. Its mascot is the Indians.


Minooka has an outstanding athletics program. The boy's varsity baseball have been in the playoffs for the last three years. The boy's wrestling also is a remarkable program. Each year they send five or more students down to wrestle at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Many of the wrestlers have placed including Russ Weil, a two-time 215 lb State Champion (2003,2004). The boys also compete in team state every year. Other standout Minooka Alumni athletes include Nate Pucel, Alex Tyrell, Zach Hanley, Jeff Riley, and Scott Moss.

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