Lane Technical College Prep High School

Albert G. Lane Tech College Prep High School
The clock tower at Lane Tech
Address
2501 W. Addison Street
Chicago, Illinois 60618
United States
Coordinates 41°56′43″N 87°41′27″W / 41.9454°N 87.6907°W / 41.9454; -87.6907Coordinates: 41°56′43″N 87°41′27″W / 41.9454°N 87.6907°W / 41.9454; -87.6907
Information
School type Public Secondary Magnet
Motto Wherever you go, whatever you do, remember the honor of Lane
Opened 1908
School district Chicago Public Schools
CEEB code 140640[1]
Principal Brian Tennison[2]
Grades 7th–12th
Gender Coed
Enrollment 4,421[3] (2018)
Campus size 33 acres (13 ha)
Campus type Urban
Color(s)      Myrtle
     Old Gold[4]
Fight song Go, Lane, Go[5]
Athletics conference Chicago Public League
Nickname Indians[4]
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[6]
Newspaper The Warrior
Yearbook The Arrowhead
Website http://www.lanetech.org/

Lane Technical College Preparatory High School (also known as Lane Tech) is a public 4-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, United States. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Lane is one of the oldest schools in the city and has an enrollment of over four thousand students, making it the largest high school in Chicago.[7] Lane is a selective-enrollment-based school in which students must take a test and pass a certain benchmark in order to be offered admission.[7] Lane is one of eleven selective enrollment schools in Chicago. It is a diverse school with many of its students coming from different ethnicities and economic backgrounds.[8] To celebrate the school's diversity, Lane hosts dozens of ethnic clubs which help students learn more about other cultures as well as prepare for the International Days festivities.[9] Lane's newspaper is called the Warrior, and the annual yearbook is called the Arrowhead. In 2011, Lane Tech opened up an Academic Center for 7th and 8th grade students. The Academic Center is an accelerated program and follows selective enrollment policies. In 2018, Lane Tech was rated the #3 high school in Illinois. [10]

School History

Founding

The school is named after Albert G. Lane, a former principal and superintendent. It was founded in 1908 and dedicated on Washington's Birthday in 1909, as the Albert Grannis Lane Manual Training High School.[11] It originally stood at Sedgwick Avenue and Division Street.[12] During the early years of the school's operation, the school was a manual training school for boys, where students could take advantage of a wide array of technical classes. Freshmen were offered carpentry, cabinet making, and wood turning. Sophomores received training in foundry, forge, welding, coremaking and molding. Juniors could take classes in the machine shop. Seniors were able to take electric shop which was the most advanced shop course.[5]

By the 1930s, Lane had a student population of over 7,000 boys. Since the school's building was not originally planned for such a huge student population, a new site for the school was chosen, and the building was designed by Board of Education architect John C. Christensen. On its dedication day, September 17, 1934,[5] the student body—over 9,000 boys—and faculty gathered at Wrigley Field and from there walked en masse several miles west to the new campus. (In 1983 and 2008, to celebrate the 75th and 100th anniversaries of the school, a march was held from the school to Wrigley Field.)[13] Lane's huge student body necessitated that classes be held in three shifts.[5] That year (1934), the school name was changed to the Albert Grannis Lane Technical High School to reflect the school's expanding curriculum, but was known to all simply as "Lane Tech." In 2004, the school name was changed to Lane Technical College Prep High School to reflect a college preparatory mandate.

Contribution to World War II

During World War II, Lane Tech students ran drives to aid in the war effort. The drives generated over $3 million in war bonds, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and four Red Cross ambulances.

Student admission during the Cold War

Lane adopted a closed admission policy in 1958 on the school's 50th anniversary. All remedial classes were eliminated and only top tier students were admitted to the school. This coincided with the beginning of the space race between the United States and the USSR. Lane changed its educational policy to help ensure that the United States would not fall behind the Soviets in science and technology.[5]

Admission of female students

In 1971, changes were made to the admission policy due to a drop in enrollment and lack of technical schools for girls. To solve the issue, Superintendent James Redmond recommended that girls be admitted to Lane Tech. The Chicago Board of Education concurred and girls were admitted as students for the first time. Due to a fear of having a drop in academic achievement, fifteen hundred male students protested the admission but the decision was not changed.[5]

Campus

The west and rear of the school. The clock tower is visible to the right of center, and to the left of the taller smokestack.

Lane Tech is located on a 33-acre (13 ha) campus at the intersection of Addison Street and Western Avenue. The main building is similar to an A-shape and consists of four floors and a greenhouse as the fifth floor. Some unique features of the main building include a clock tower and a smoke stack.

Several fast food chains, restaurants, supermarkets, and specialty stores are located around the campus. The school is one of only three Chicago Public Schools that allows off-campus lunch.

Lane Stadium

During the spring 2007 season, Chicago city building inspectors declared Lane Stadium unsafe and condemned the eastern half of the stadium. The age of the stadium and the fact it was built on landfill raised concerns that using the stadium to full capacity would cause a structural collapse. Events affected were the 2007 - 2014 graduating class ceremonies (moved to the UIC Pavilion located at the University of Illinois at Chicago), the annual Letterman versus Faculty Softball game, the annual Memorial Day assembly, and the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Pep Rally.[14] Lane Stadium reopened September 7, 2007, with a new turf field. The stadium also features a new IHSA regulation track.

Memorial Garden

The Lane Tech Memorial Garden is located in the inner courtyard of the building and is dedicated to graduates who have lost their lives defending their country. At the east end of the formal garden is a bronze statue of a young Native American, created by the artist, J. Sazton. It is called, "Shooting the Stars" and it symbolically urges students to set their sights on lofty goals.[15]

At the west end of the Memorial Garden is the Ramo I. Zenkich Memorial, consisting of a flag pole and granite monument inscribed with the names of the students from Lane Tech who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. The Memorial Garden was rededicated in 1995. During the school's 90th anniversary celebration in 1998, a commemorative plaque was placed near the "Shooting the Stars" statue. It explains the significance of the Memorial Garden to Lane Tech and its students.

As a filming location

Lane has been the site of various filming locations. The movie The Express, starring Dennis Quaid, was filmed during the 2006–2007 school year in Lane Tech stadium.[16] Lane's stadium was also used for some parts of the 1986 movie, Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn and Swoosie Kurtz.[17] The 33-acre (13 ha) campus was also used in scenes in the movie High Fidelity, filmed on the east lawn of the Lane Tech campus, as well as interior scenes in a chemistry classroom.[18]

Art collection

Seven frescoes in the lunchroom by Edgar Britton titled Epochs in the History of Man, four fresco panels in the auditorium foyer titled The Teaching of Art by Mitchell Siporin, a painted fire curtain in the auditorium by John Walley, six mahogany panels titled Evolution of the Book and five panels titled Control of the Elements in the library by Peter Paul Ott were all acquired with Federal New Deal funding between 1939 and 1941. Charles Umlauf's sculptures are located in the courtyard. Murals created for A Century of Progress, Chicago's second World's Fair, are displayed throughout the building.[19]

Academics

Honor level courses are offered to qualified students. Advanced Placement (AP) courses are available in English, history, math, science, art, music, computer science and world languages. Students can also replace their normal physical education classes with a class in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC). The program sponsors the Proctors Club, Color Guard, Honor Guard, Drill Platoon, Drum & Bugle Corps, and Raiders of Lane.[20] As of 2018, Lane has an 94% graduation rate. [21]

As of 2018, 94% of Lane students take at least one AP class throughout their time at Lane. [22]

Lane offers courses in Aquaponics and is the only Chicago Public School to do so. [23]

Lane Tech has the most graduates that complete PhD's in the nation as of 2018. [24]

Athletics

Lane offers many sports including, but not limited to baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross-country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, wrestling, women's rugby[25], and water polo.[26] Lane garners, on average, 7-10 city-championships per year and has won 16 state championships since 1908. Numerous Lane Tech athletes have competed beyond the high school level and achieved success at the college level and beyond.[5]

In 1934 the NFL-champion Chicago Bears held their practices for the Chicago College All-Star Game at Lane Tech.[27]

Notable alumni

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