| Prairie Ridge High School | |
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| Established | 1997 |
| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Paul Humpa |
| Dean | Emory Swinney & Scott LeMoine |
| Students | 1689 students [1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Location | 3000 Dvorak Dr., Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States Of America |
| Oversight | Community High School District 155 |
| Colors | Silver Maroon |
| Mascot | Wolves |
| Newspaper | "Wolf Prints" |
| Website | Prairie Ridge High School |
Prairie Ridge High School is the newest of the four high schools in Community High School District 155 in Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States. The other three high school in the area include: Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, and Cary Grove. Prairie Ridge High school opened in 1997 to address the overpopulation of the three area high schools. In addition to Crystal Lake, Prairie Ridge also accepts students from Cary, Prairie Grove, and a small portion of McHenry. Prior to opening its doors, the first graduating class of students was allowed to vote on the name, colors, and song for the new High School. The District approved the name, and Prairie Ridge was born. It now serves more than 1,700 students and has been recognized several times as one of the 50 best public high schools in Illinois.[2]
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Prairie Ridge competes in the Fox division of the Fox Valley Conference, which is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Both boys and girls swimming co-ops with Cary-Grove, CL Central, and CL South.
The baseball team won the 2007-08 IHSA State Championship.
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Prairie Ridge has a large selection of in-school and after-school activities available to all students. Band programs include Marching, Jazz, and Symphonic. There are class clubs for each grade level, freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior.
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The Performing Arts provides a way for students to show their creativeness through classes and performances. Every year there is a series of performances held at Prairie Ridge. This usually includes a fall and spring play, along with a musical and a student variety show.
Prairie Ridge also has several choirs. The younger choirs - Men's Choir and Beginning Treble Choir - are typically composed of entering Freshmen and new choir recruits. These students then move by audition to either the Mixed Chorus, Advanced Treble Choir, or A Capella Choir. Every year, one of the choirs goes to perform at the IMEA choir festival.
There are also several extracurricular choirs, including Chanteurs d'Aêrte, Court Singers. Queen Singers was replaced by the Chanteurs in 2009, and grew to include a Bass and Tenor section.
Prairie Ridge is also home to the Prairie Ridge Madrigals. The Prairie Ridge Madrigals are well known and typically perform at a variety of venues, including major sporting events, state universities, choir festivals, and K-12 schools. Composed of typically 16 individuals - four basses, four tenors, four altos, and four sopranos - they are a fully a cappella group whose intra-school and inter-school interactions have cemented a reputation.
Both the Madrigals and A Capella Choirs were recognized by the Illinois Music Educators Association in 2002 and performed at a music festival in Toronto, Canada in 2003, at Disney World in 2008, and in New York in 2011.
Amy LePeilbet - Professional women's soccer player with the Boston Breakers (WPS) and defender on the United States Women's National Soccer Team.
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