Lake Park High School

Lake Park High School
Location
600 S. Medinah Road
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 high school
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 DuKane 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 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.[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:[6]

  • Earth Club[7]
  • Fishing Club
  • Hockey Club
  • Art Club [7]
  • Montage
  • Dance Ensemble
  • Computer Club
  • Keyboarding Team
  • Group Interpretation
  • Winter Guard
  • College Unidos
  • Future Medical Professionals
  • French Club[7]
  • German Club[7]
  • Gamers Club[7]
  • GSA
  • NHS
  • Outspoken Artists Poetry Slam
  • Psychology Club[7]
  • Snowball Club
  • Spanish Club[7]
  • HOSA Club[7]
  • Family, Career, & Community Leaders of America[7]

Competitive organizations

  • Color Guard[8]
  • Contest Play[8]
  • Group Interpretation[8]
  • DECA[8]
  • Marching Band[9]
  • Speech Team[8]
  • Perspective
  • Theater
  • Scholastic Bowl
  • Math Team[8]
  • Jazz Band
  • Fishing Team[8]
  • Chess Team [8]
  • Youth and Government[8]
  • Winter Guard[8]
  • Science Olympiads[8]
  • Ultimate frisbee[8]

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

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/ Archived December 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.,
  4. ↑ "Home". Lplancettes.com. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "School Directory". ihsa.org. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ Annual Financial Report, Lake Park High School, June 30, 2016. Accessed November 1, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Home". lakeparkband.com. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ McDill, Kent via United Press International. "Mark Gorski Is a Big Wheel in This Sport", Los Angeles Times, July 10, 1988. Accessed November 1, 2017. "Gorski has not yet received an invitation to his 10-year high school reunion at Lake Park High School in suburban Roselle, Ill., because the reunion committee has no current address for him. If Gorski makes the Olympic team, he'll miss the reunion anyway."
  11. ↑ Homer, Jody. "New Life, Old Name At NIU; Latest Kellar Leads Defense", Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1985. Accessed November 1, 2017. "Scott has put on 35 pounds since graduating from Lake Park High School in west suburban Roselle."
  12. ↑ Kotche, Glenn, A Beat a Week: A Total Percussion Approach to Playing the Drums, p. 93. Alfred Music, 2013. ISBN 9781470616045. Accessed November 1, 2017. "A check pattern is something I learned to do first in the Lake Park High School marching band drum line. with my fantastic high school drum teacher, Mike Chiodo and, later, with Bret Kuhn in The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps snare line."
  13. ↑ Staff. "Roselle umpire Tony Randazzo named to World Series crew", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), October 25, 2016. Accessed November 1, 2017. "Lake Park High School grad Tony Randazzo, who has spent 17 years as an umpire in Major League Baseball, will be part of the officiating crew for the World Series with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs."
  14. ↑ "Duncan Rouleau". Masters of Comic Book Art. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Duncan Rouleau Does the Heavy Lifting on "Metal Men"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Don Schulze Statistics". Baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  17. ↑ Rodney A. Smolla, Widener University School of Law. Accessed November 1, 2017. "Lake Park High School Distinguished Alumni Award, 1995 "
  18. ↑ "Sarah Zelenka". usrowing.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
  19. ↑ uwbadgers.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150920212612/http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-track/mtt/zach_ziemek_786737.html. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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