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York Community High School is a public secondary school in
Elmhurst, Illinois
Elmhurst is a city mostly in DuPage County and overlapping into Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a western suburb of Chicago. As of 2021, the city has an estimated population of 47,260.
History
Members of the Potawatomi Native A ...
, United States. It is a part of the
Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205. Most of the students reside in Elmhurst; however, the district also draws a small number of students from
Addison
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,
Bensenville, and
Oak Brook.
York is the only high school in the district, which as a
unit school district
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also includes an early childhood center, eight
elementary schools
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, three
middle schools
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, and
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History
Prior to 1918, Elmhurst operated a combined high school and grammar school, which was destroyed by fire in December 1917.
York was established in 1918. The building saw many additions from 1950 through 1990, including a third floor, a four-classroom fourth floor, swimming pool, and additional facilities. In 2000, the voters of District 205 passed a referendum to rebuild the school. Construction started soon after and the new building, which was first opened in 2002, has separate academic, service, student commons and athletics areas (including a new fieldhouse).
Academics
In 2017, York had an average composite
ACT score of 24.5 and graduated 95.5% of its senior class.
[url=] In 2017, 54% of the senior class had taken at least one
Advanced Placement
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exam during high school, and of those who took an exam in 2017, 91% passed at least one of their exams. In 2011,
Newsweek
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ranked York Community High School 257 out of 500 in its annual list of America's Best High Schools. Overall, according to the US News 2017 High School rankings, York Community High School is ranked 687 of all public high schools in the United States and ranked 18 of all high schools in the state of Illinois.
Athletics
York High School competes in the
West Suburban Conference
The West Suburban Conference is an athletic conference in DuPage County and Cook County in the state of Illinois.
The conference was founded in 1924.
Member schools
All of the schools are also members of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA ...
. The school is also a member of the
Illinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is an association that regulates competition of interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level for the state of Illinois. It is a charter member of the National Fed ...
(IHSA), which governs most sports and competitive activities in Illinois. Rob Wagner is the current athletic director at York High School.
The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in
basketball
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,
cross country,
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
,
gymnastics
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,
soccer
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,
swimming
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&
diving
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* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
Diving or Dive may also refer to:
Sports
* Dive (American football), a ...
,
tennis
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,
track & field
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,
volleyball
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,
cheerleading
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, and
water polo
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.
Young men may compete in
baseball
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,
football
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, and
wrestling
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, while young women may compete in
badminton
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,
bowling
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,
dance
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, and
softball
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.
While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors teams for young men and women in
lacrosse
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, and a
poms team for young women. Also while not sponsored by the IHSA, York has a men's hockey team.
York Community High School's athletic program was ranked 17th overall in the nation by
ESPN RISE
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's FAB 50 list.
York Community High School's men's cross country team has won 28 state championships under coach
Joe Newton: 1962, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978AA, 1980AA, 1981AA, 1982AA, 1983AA, 1984AA, 1986AA, 1989AA, 1990AA, 1991AA, 1992AA, 1993AA, 1994AA, 1999AA, 2000AA, 2002AA, 2003AA, 2004AA, 2005AA, 2006AA, 2010-3A, and 2012-3A.
He retired in 2016 because of problems with mobility and movement from his home to practice. Currently, the team's head coach is Charlie Kern. The head coach of the women's cross country team is Lauren DeAngelis.
Arts
York Community High School offers a variety of performing arts programs. Its music program includes a full orchestra, three individual orchestras, three full bands, and three concert choirs. Students have the opportunity to join music groups such as Jazz Band, a cappella singing groups, and percussion ensembles. Musicians have the opportunity to compete annually in the Illinois Music Educators Association (ILMEA) competition; students are chosen to go first to a District level concert, and if chosen they can also continue to go to ILMEA State, held in Peoria, Illinois. York also has a theater department that puts on three productions a year. The drama department went to the Illinois High School Musical Theater Awards (IHSMTA) in 2017 for their production of "West Side Story" and received the award of Best Production in the state. The dance programs at York include the Advanced Dance Class and the York Dance Company. Many clubs surround art as well, through painting, photography, drawing, or other forms of art.
Notable alumni
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(born 1995), American-Israeli basketball player
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Martin Forest Eberhard (born 1960) is an American engineer and business executive. He founded
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(then Tesla Motors).
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Lee A. Daniels
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was an
Illinois State Representative
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(1975–2006), who served as Speaker of the State House (1995–97).
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* George J. Eade was a United States Air Force
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four-star general
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.
* Robert Goldsborough
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(1955), murder mystery novelist.
* Ron Guenther
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is a former athletic director for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
* Garth Lagerwey
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, a former professional soccer player who is currently an executive with Real Salt Lake
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.
*Fred Lorenzen
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, former stock car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame
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* Timothy P. Marshall (1974), civil engineer and meteorologist, tornado expert, pioneering storm chaser
* Betty Okino
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* Ken Paulson
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* Gary Rydstrom
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is a multi-Academy Award
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winning sound mixer, sound effects editor, and director. His work in sound includes films such as ''Backdraft
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'', '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', and ''Jurassic Park
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''.
* Donald Sage was an All-American cross country and track runner for Stanford University
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.
* Ian Michael Smith
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* Floyd Swink
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* Tim Stratton
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and was the inaugural winner of the John Mackey Award (2000), presented annually to Division 1A's best tight end.
Notable staff
* Joe Newton was the boys cross country coach from 1959 to 2016. He was also the boys track & field coach, having coached state championship teams in both sports. He was a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations
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(NFSHS) Hall of Fame. He was also an assistant marathon coach at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
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See also
* List of high schools in Illinois
This is a list of Secondary school, high schools in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Adams County
*Central High School (Camp Point, Illinois), Central High School, Camp Point, Illinois, Camp Point
*Liberty High School (Illinois), Liberty High School, ...
References
External links
York Community High School
- Official Site
Long Green Line
- Documentary film about York High School's boys cross country program
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Public high schools in Illinois
Educational institutions established in 1918
Elmhurst, Illinois
Schools in DuPage County, Illinois
1918 establishments in Illinois