Lake Forest High School (Illinois)

1285 N. McKinley Rd

History

The LFHS was built in 1935. The most recent additions were made in 2008, doing a general area has been revised and a new canteen and a music wing built, and made ​​other minor adjustments.

Campus

The high school has both a studio theater and auditorium as well as a television studio with 5,500 video cassettes. It also has computer labs, a library, computer with CD -ROM queries, academic publishing facilities, photo lab and special education. The sports facilities are very close to the residences and include a climbing wall, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with diving board and good equipped gymnasium. The campus includes a large sports field ( for field hockey, lacrosse and Ultimate) and a running track and a football field with two grandstands. As the school is very close to residential areas, the city Lake Forest has not allowed that uses the school 's football team floodlight, but in 2006 the city allowed the use of one-time flood light for a night game. In 2007, the relocation of the football games was on the West Campus, where floodlight is permitted, required by a referendum. The referendum resulted in an overwhelming 2/3 majority, and the subsequent restoration was done in two phases. The first phase, which was completed during the current 2007/2008 school year led to the construction of the music wing and the renovation of the West Campus, including construction of a varsity field. The second phase, completed in August 2008, included conversion and new construction in the East Campus with a new cafeteria, a large atrium and library, as well as the construction of administrative offices on the west campus, in addition, a new artificial turf football field were on the West Campus built floodlit.

Academic

In 2005, completed 98.9 % of the senior class from the LFHS. The high school was in the "Top million" - and added, " Most Successful" lists of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Parade magazine. The average class size is 19.3. Lake Forest Adequate Yearly Progress made ​​to the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.

In 2010, the Lake Forest High School has an average ACT composite score of 26.5 - one of the highest in the state. The national average was 21.1. SAT averages were 601 in Critical Reading, 621 in math and 594 in literature.

The average teaching time of faculty members is 11.3 years, about 96 % of the faculty members have a master's or higher degree. There are 156 certified staff, thereby a student - teacher ratio of 12.7 created.

Along with the typical course content that LFHS includes 22 AP classes and 41 honors class. As Advanced Placement courses are offered: Biology, Calculus AB and BC, Chemistry, Computer programming, computer science, economics, environmental science, French V and VI, German, Latin IV and V, literary analysis and criticism, Modern European History, Music Theory, Psychology, Physics B and C, Political Science, Spanish V, Statistics, Studio Art, American and world history.

The Lake Forest High School Foundation was founded in 2002 and took over as Foundation aims to enable the financing of the necessary resources to support and enrich the educational experience of students, faculty and staff of Lake Forest High School. This foundation is there to provide Lake Forest High School students and faculty the finances that they need to be able to train better. The Lake Forest High Scholl Foundation awarded over 150 scholarships to date, at an altitude of about 950,000 U.S. dollars.

Activities

  • Amplification
  • Art / Photo Club
  • Astronomy Club
  • Chess Club
  • Congressional Debate
  • Croya
  • Debate
  • Environmental Club
  • Euro Challenge
  • Forensics Team
  • Global Connections
  • Human Rights Club
  • International Club
  • Japanese Animation
  • Jazz Band
  • Junior State of America
  • Math Team
  • Men's Club
  • National Forensic League
  • Model United Nations
  • National Honor Society
  • National Forensic League
  • Red Cross Club
  • SADD
  • Sailing Club
  • Scholastic Bowl
  • Science Olympiad
  • Scout Buddies
  • Senior Class
  • Student to Student
  • Student Council
  • Tech Crew
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Women's Club
  • YAK
  • Yearbook
  • Young Idea

Alumni

  • Melinda Beck, 1973 - former publisher of Newsweek, today's publisher of The Wall Street Journal
  • Alan Benes, 1990 - Major League Baseball pitcher from 1995 to 2003: St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers
  • Andrew Bird, 1991 - Musicians
  • Mat Devine - lead singer of Kill Hannah
  • Dave Eggers, 1988 - Author and writer
  • William D. Eggers, 1985 - Writer and Consultant
  • Charlie Finn - Actor
  • Matt Grevers, 2003 - swimmer, 2008 Olympic Champion 4x100m
  • Rob Pelinka, 1988 - Sports Agent
  • Jane Skinner, 1985 - TV -News- Sprecherbei Fox News Channel; Wife of NFL Commissioner's Roger Goodell
  • Brittany " McKey " Sullivan, 2007 - winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 11
  • Catherine Warren, 2002 - Miss Illinois USA 2006
  • Tim Weigel, 1963 - Sports Agent
  • Vince Vaughn, 1988 - Actors
  • Danny Berardini, 2011 - NCAA All-American gymnast at the University of Oklahoma
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