Lake Park High School

Lake Park High School
Location
600 S. Medinah Rd. Roselle, IL 60172 (East) 500 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Roselle, IL 60172 (West), Illinois United States
Coordinates	East Campus: 41°58′24″N 88°03′14″W / 41.973259°N 88.053768°W / 41.973259; -88.053768Coordinates: 41°58′24″N 88°03′14″W / 41.973259°N 88.053768°W / 41.973259; -88.053768 West Campus: 41°58′36″N 88°05′37″W / 41.976768°N 88.093529°W / 41.976768; -88.093529
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1956
School district	Lake Park Community High School District 108
Superintendent	Lynne Panega
Principal	John Gouriotis
Faculty	155.3 FTEs[1]
Grades	9–10 (East) 11–12 (West)
Enrollment	2,655 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	17.1:1[1]
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Navy Blue      Columbia Blue      White
Athletics	DuPage Valley Conference Illinois High School Association
Team name	Lancers
Accreditation	Illinois State Board of Education
Architect	ARCON Associates
Website	www.lphs.org
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Lake Park High School is a public, four-year high school occupying two campuses, both located in Roselle, Illinois, a northwestern suburb of Chicago. Freshmen and sophomores attend the East Campus (the original campus built in 1956), located near Medinah and juniors and seniors attend the West Campus. It is part of the Lake Park Community High School District 108. Students from Roselle, Medinah, Bloomingdale, Itasca, Wood Dale, Keeneyville, and Hanover Park attend the school.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,655 students and 155.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.1:1. There were 402 students (15.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 0 (0.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[1]

History

The name "Lake Park" is derived from the campuses being between "Lake" Street and Irving "Park" Road. The citizens of northwestern DuPage County, Illinois founded Lake Park High School District 108 in 1953, and the doors opened at what is now East Campus, 600 South Medinah Road, Roselle, in September 1956 to 320 students. In less than twenty years, the number of students had increased substantially and West Campus was built in 1975.^[3] The east campus borders the Medinah Country Club

Academics

The school offers 20 Advanced Placement courses, such as: Business Education, Cooperative Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Industrial Technology, and Fine Arts.

There are 340 teachers.

Technical Center of DuPage

Lake Park offers a program at the Technical Center of DuPage, more commonly known as TCD, to the upperclassmen. Those young adults take this opportunity to venture out into their field of choice to get hands on experience and receive college credits in the process.

Athletics

Lake Park has 28 athletic teams, of which there are 13 boys, 11 girls teams and 4 co-ed teams that compete in the DuPage Valley Conference and Illinois High School Association.

State titles

• Boys Track - 1997, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.^[5]
• Girls Bowling - 1986-87 and 1994-95^[5]
• Boys Bowling - 2008–2009^[5]
• Cheerleading (Coed) 2011^[5]

Activities

Lake Park offers more than 40 extracurricular activities: career and hobby organizations, competitive organizations, honorary organizations, performance organizations, publications, service and prevention organizations, and spirit organizations. Such activities include:

Competitive organizations

Exchanges

Lake Park has an exchange program with Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany, allowing students to experience each other's culture and lifestyle.

Notable alumni

• Mark Gorski, 1978, Olympic gold medalist (track cycling Individual sprint, 1984 Summer Olympics)
• Keith Hackney, 1976, mixed martial arts fighter.
• Scott Kellar, 1982, football player
• Glenn Kotche, 1989, drummer for the band Wilco, Grammy Award winner (2005)
• Tony Randazzo, 1983, MLB umpire
• Duncan Rouleau, 1982, comic book writer and artist^[9][10]
• Don Schulze, 1980, Major League Baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Japan League)^[11]
• Rod Smolla, 1971, President, Furman University, Greenville, SC
• Robert Shallcross, 1976, screenwriter and director of movies such as "Uncle Nino" (2003) "Bored Silly" (2000) and writer "Little Giants" (1994)
• Sarah Zelenka, 2005, rower at the 2012 Summer Olympics^[12]
• Zachery Ziemek, 2011, decathlete at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics^[13]

References

1. 1 2 3 4 School data for Lake Park High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
2. ↑ "School Profile 2008" (PDF). Lake Park Community High School District 108. July 17, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2009. 
3. ↑ http://www.lphs.org/about/facts/,
4. ↑ "Home". Lplancettes.com. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 
5. 1 2 3 4 "School Directory". ihsa.org. Retrieved July 30, 2015. 
6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 http://lphs.org/activities/career_hobby_organizations/index.html
7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 http://lphs.org/activities/academic_competitive_orgs/
8. ↑ "Home". lakeparkband.com. Retrieved November 11, 2014. 
9. ↑ "Duncan Rouleau". Masters of Comic Book Art. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 
10. ↑ "Duncan Rouleau Does the Heavy Lifting on "Metal Men"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 
11. ↑ "Don Schulze Statistics". Baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 18, 2011. 
12. ↑ "Sarah Zelenka". usrowing.org. Retrieved 28 July 2012. 
13. ↑ uwbadgers.com http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-track/mtt/zach_ziemek_786737.html. Retrieved 15 September 2015.  Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Official website