Oswego High School (Illinois)

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Oswego High School

Established	1951
Type	Public secondary
Principal	Mike Wayne
Students	2,000
Grades	9–12
Location	4175 Route 71 Oswego, Illinois, USA
Campus	Suburban
Colors	Navy Blue, Orange
Mascot	Panthers
Newspaper	'The Panther Paw'
Website	www.oswego308.org/schools/ohs

Oswego High School, or OHS, is a public four-year high school located in Oswego, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Oswego Community Unit School District 308, which also includes Oswego East High School.

1 History
2 Academics
3 Athletics
4 Activities
5 Notable alumni
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Oswego high school opened its doors in the spring of 1951. The existing Oswego High school building is actually the third location of the Oswego High School. Oswego High School at one point was located where Traughber Junior High School is now located. In the past decade, Oswego High School has undergone many additions to its existing location to accommodate such a fast growing community. Adding to the process was a new greenhouse, new hallways, which housed new state of the art rooms for the art department. Oswego High School has been known for their successful football teams over the years. Coach Karl Hoinkes has led the Oswego Panthers to two state titles for football. Oswego High School is a drug-free school zone and is an advocate for the "zero-tolerance" policy. After the events of the Columbine shootings, Oswego High School felt it was within the best interest of students safety to hire full time security guards. Also on staff by compliments of the Oswego Police Department is a Liaison Officer. The Oswego High School football stadium is named "Ken Pickerill Field". The school's song is actually the Notre Dame Fighting Irish fight song.

[edit] Academics

In 2005, Oswego had an average composite ACT score of 20.1, and graduated 92.8% of its senior class. Oswego has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act as of the 2006-2007 school year.^[1]

Oswego High School offers a wide range of curricular and elective courses in the following departments: Career and Technology (award winning woods and foods programs) Fine Arts (award winning band, choir, theatre, and art programs) English (award winning journalism program) Math Science Kinetic Wellness Foreign Language

[edit] Athletics

Oswego competes in the Southwest Prairie Conference and Illinois High School Association. Its mascot is the Panthers. Oswego High School has sports teams including... Basketball, Soccer, Wrestling, Tennis, Football, Swimming, Baseball, Gymnastics, Bowling, Cheerleading, Golf, Track and Field, Cross Country, Badminton, Poms, Softball,...

The 2003-2004 school year landed Oswego High school its latest championship in football which was in the 7A division. They defeated Lake Forest High School in the first round of the 2007 playoffs to advance to the second round to face Prairie Ridge under new head coach David Keeley.

The Oswego Cross Country team was lead to Sectionals where they finished 7th with new Coach Dan Whipple. The team looks to return to its former greatness of the school back in the 70's and 90's.

[edit] Activities

Oswego High School offers dozens of extracurricular activities. The hockey team has won both a JV and a Varsity championship since it was created in 2003 (JV = Divisional Champs, V = League Champs)2003-2004 OHS combined with Bradley Bourbonais, 2004-Present OHS combined with: Oswego East, West Aurora, Aurora Christian, Sandwich and Yorkville students able to play for the Panthers. The 4th seeded OHS 2004-2005 Team posted a 15-6-5 divisional record, with a 19-6-5 record overall, getting to the State quarterfinals before getting beat by Glenbard North/Driscol (returning champions), by a score of 6-5 . In 2005, the combined marching bands of Oswego High and Oswego East marched the 116th Tournament of Roses parade. That year the band also received coverage on CBS.