| Wheaton North High School | |
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701 West Thomas Road[1] , 60187 United States | |
| Coordinates | 41°53′02″N88°06′58″W / 41.88389°N 88.11611°W /41.88389; -88.11611 |
| Information | |
| School type | PublicSecondary |
| Opened | 1964; 61 years ago (1964) |
| School district | Comm. Unit S.D. 200 |
| NCES District ID | 1742180 |
| Superintendent | Jeffrey Schuler[2] |
| CEEB code | 144386 |
| NCES School ID | 174218004223 |
| Principal | Dan Korntheuer[3] |
| Teaching staff | 129.75 (on anFTE basis)[4] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 1,872[4] (2023–2024) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.43[4] |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Blue Gold[5] |
| Fight song | "Falcon Fight Song" |
| Athletics conference | DuKane Conference[5] |
| Mascot | Falcon[1] |
| Team name | Falcons[5] |
| Publication | Falcon Weekly[6] |
| Newspaper | Falcon Flyer[6] |
| Yearbook | The Northerner[6] |
| Website | www |
Wheaton North High School (WNHS), locally referred to as "North" is a public four-yearhigh school inWheaton, Illinois, a western suburb ofChicago. It is one of two high schools that are part ofCommunity Unit School District 200, the other beingWheaton Warrenville South High School.
As demand for a second high school increased in the 1950s and 1960s, Wheaton North High School split off from the original Wheaton Community High School in 1963. At this time, Wheaton Community changed its name to Wheaton Central, and in 1974, a third high school Wheaton Warrenville, joined the district. In 1983, Wheaton Warrenville was closed and the district only had the two high schools, Wheaton North and Wheaton Central. In 1992, Wheaton Central moved into the former Wheaton Warrenville high school and changed its name toWheaton Warrenville South.
The building underwent significant renovations in[7] the mid-1990s and on April 1, 2003, residents of Community Unit School District 200 approved, by a vote of 10,173 to 6,518,[8] a $72 million bond referendum to renovate and add onto both Wheaton North, and its counterpart, Wheaton Warrenville South. Construction began in the summer of 2003 with its first phase of the building of a field house. The second phase included renovations and additions to the building, which were completed in summer 2006.
On August 31, 2007, the school received a surprise visit from former U.S. PresidentBill Clinton. He made the visit to commend the school for its history of community service, and particularly singled outKendall Ciesemier for her achievement in raising money and awareness for highly vulnerable children in Africa through her charity, Kids Caring 4 Kids, despite suffering her own medical problems. Kendall was rewarded with a trip toThe Oprah Winfrey Show. The episode featuring Kendall aired September 4, 2007.[9]
As of 2015, most of the school has not changed its appearance inside and out physically, until a flood occurred. This flood generated momentum and a problem for the school. The library received help from the community, its own faculty and other people as it was being refinished. This newly refinished library was also the class gift from the class of 2015.[10][11]
In 2024, Wheaton North had an averageSAT score of 536.1 in ELA and 526.2 in math,[7] had a 73.3/100 percentage of proficient or higher students in theISA[12] and graduated 94.6 of students in the class of 2024.[13]
TheChallenge Index, used annually byThe Washington Post andNewsweek magazine to rank U.S. high schools, placed Wheaton North in the top 1300 three years in a row. This index ranks public schools according to a ratio devised byJay Mathews: the number ofAdvanced Placement,International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in the past year divided by the number of graduating seniors. In 2009, Wheaton North ranked #1260. In 2006, the school had ranked #1078, in 2007, it had ranked #1039, and in 2008, the school ranked #1276.[14]
Wheaton North competes in the DuKane Conference, and is a member of theIllinois High School Association (IHSA), which governs most interscholastic sports and competitive activities in the state.
In 2003, Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville South became the first high schools in the DuPage Valley Conference, and among the first high schools in the nation, to convert their football fields to artificial field turf.
The school sponsors interscholastic athletic teams for boys and girls in basketball,cross country, golf, gymnastics, parasailing, soccer, swimming anddiving, tennis,track & field, and volleyball. Boys may compete in baseball,football, andwrestling, while girls may compete in badminton,cheerleading, andsoftball.[15]
The following teams have won championships in their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament or meet:[16]
Wheaton North offers language clubs, service activities, and various other activities, typical of an American high school.
The following competitive activities have earned championships in their respective State Championship Tournaments, sponsored by theIHSA:[16]
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Miller was shot during a firefight in a town near the Pakistan border Friday. He graduated from Wheaton North High School in 2002. The teachers remember him as a strong student and also a good athlete. He was a member of the gymnastics team who qualified for state his senior year. And those who knew him say it was a terrible loss.
A Wheaton North graduate is being posthumously awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his heroic actions in Afghanistan in 2008. The White House announced Thursday that Army Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, who died while in a close-range fire fight on Jan. 25, 2008, would receive the rare award.
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