Lake Park High School is a four-year public high school occupying two campuses, both located in Roselle, Illinois, a western 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 none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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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. The east campus borders the Medinah Country Club
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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.
- Girls Bowling - 1986-87 and 1994-95
- Boys Bowling - 2008-2009
- Cheerleading (Coed) 2011
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 (born 1960, class of 1978), Olympic gold medalist (track cycling Individual sprint, 1984 Summer Olympics)
- Keith Hackney (born 1958, class of 1976), mixed martial arts fighter.
- Scott Kellar (born 1963, class of 1982, football player
- Glenn Kotche (born 1970, class of 1989), drummer for the band Wilco, Grammy Award winner (2005)
- Tony Randazzo (born 1965, class of 1983), MLB umpire
- Duncan Rouleau, 1982, comic book writer and artist
- Don Schulze, 1980, Major League Baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Japan League)
- Rodney A. Smolla (class of 1971), Dean of the Widener University School of Law
- 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
- Zach Ziemek, 2011, decathlete at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
References
External links
- Official website
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