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occupying a campus in

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, a north suburb of

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along the Lake Michigan shore. ETHS was established in 1883 and serves the city of Evanston and a small portion of the neighboring village of Skokie for a total district population of approximately 78,000. The attendance area of the school is home to

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. Evanston Township High School has 589 certified staff members. ETHS is fully accredited by the State of Illinois.

History

The first high school in Evanston, the Preparatory School of Northwestern University, established in 1857, was a private institute. In 1873, public school superintendent Otis E. Haven began teaching Evanston's first public high school class in an upper room of the Benson Avenue School. In 1875, Evanston's first Board of Education voted to establish a "high school" in the room, and the first class, consisting of two students, graduated in 1876. Enrollments grew rapidly and, despite multiple relocations to various buildings, by 1882 the school took four prizes in a statewide competition and was ranked third best in Illinois. Shortly thereafter, voters in April 1882, passed a referendum and bond issue establishing a township school. Construction began promptly in October 1882, and the first building opened in 1883, at Dempster and Elmwood. Enrollment grew rapidly and by 1913, despite multiple additions to the original building, 740 students occupied space meant for only 600. Crowding increased as several attempts to pass bond issues for further addition were defeated at the polls. In 1915, the Board determined to build a new school at a new location, but progress was stalled for years by a bitter fight over the campus location, which included lawsuits that went all the way to the

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. Finally, in 1921, the Board and voters approved a site at the school's current campus, 1600 Dodge Avenue in central Evanston. Construction began in 1923, and the school opened in 1924 although still incomplete. With a campus currently listed as 65 acres (263,000 m²), ETHS provides its students with many technically proficient facilities. With more than 1.2 million square feet indoors, it is the largest high school facility under one roof in the United States. The school's science facilities include a

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, and a two-acre (8,000 m²), on-site nature center/classroom. The South Technology Center (STC), formerly the Bacon Computer Center, houses over 200 computers in seven networked labs. Computer software is available for many courses in the curriculum. Near the school is the Edible Acre urban farming project, initiated by The Talking Farm, which is run with the help of ETHS volunteers during the growing season. Students investigate careers in computer-based SMART Labs. An on-site

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center serves as a lab for child-study classes. Career and Technical Education offers courses that prepare students for future career possibilities. Classes include Child Development, Business Management, Culinary Arts, where students work hands on with food, and learn how to prepare it in a safe and sanitary way, and Auto-Tech, where students run an auto-repair lab and learn engineering applications in

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s and

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using state-of-the-art equipment. Music students have their own computer lab with

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-enabled equipment. The school's library, which is networked to all Illinois libraries, has a 90,000-volume collection and extensive audiovisual resources. Performance facilities include a 1,500-seat auditorium, two additional theaters, and a cable TV broadcasting studio. There are 15 gyms, a dance studio and fitness/wellness center, two swimming pools, and a field-house with an indoor track and tennis courts. Outdoor facilities include a new track, as well as a FieldTurf stadium, baseball and soccer fields and 18 tennis courts.

Student body

Evanston Township High School is a very large co-ed

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public school with a very diverse student body, both racially and economically. From official data in 2013-14, there were 2,959 students enrolled. Of these students, 1,100 were eligible for free lunch, and 91 for reduced lunch. In recent years, enrollment has increased and become more diverse. The school reported that the 2015-16 school year reflected "the highest enrollment number (3,322) over the last five years at ETHS... ETHS also recorded its highest enrollment of students who identify as Hispanic/Latino in the history of the school. The proportion of Black/African American students (29.5% in 2015-16) has remained steady at ETHS for the past five years while the proportion of Hispanic/Latino students at the main campus has increased from the prior year (about 18% in 2015-2016 compared to 17% in 2014-2015). The proportion of White students decreased to 43.6% in 2015-16 compared to 44.7% in 2014-2015. Additionally, the percentage of Asian students at the main campus has increased slightly in 2015-16 to 5.2% and the percentage of students identified as two or more races declined in 2015-16 to 3.3%, compared to 4.2% in 2014-15." ETHS also provides a transitional program for refugees from around the world.

Academics

Some classes, including most required freshman courses, are taught at a mixed level, allowing all students to earn honors credit, while others are differentiated between regular, honors, and advanced levels. The school offers 34 courses for

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credit, as well as 9 nationally recognized Project Lead the Way (PLTW) engineering courses. Students who have exhausted all of the available accelerated courses in an academic area at ETHS may take advanced courses for college credit at Northwestern University through a special scholarship program. Some years Northwestern faculty teaches advanced mathematics students at ETHS. ETHS is listed as a gold medal school under U.S. News & World Report's 2016 list of America's 500 Best High Schools, at #452 nationally and #13 in the state. Ninety-three percent of the students from the Class of 2015 (723 students) took the ACT. ETHS students continue to score higher than the state and national average.http://www.eths.k12.il.us/domain/220 ETHS School Profile 2015-16

Athletics

Evanston Township High School is the only high school in the U.S. to claim a Wildkit as its mascot. "Wildkits" is a reference to Northwestern University's Willie the Wildcat, a mascot that was adopted by the university in the 1920s. Evanston Township High School's Willie the Wildkit mascot appears to have originated during the 1946-47 academic year. ETHS is a member of the

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, and participates in state championship tournaments sponsored by the

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(IHSA). ETHS has 35 IHSA State Championships. Each year, more than 1,000 students participate on 100 sports team in 31 different sports in

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, bowling, cross country,

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gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

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swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

track & field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

, and

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. Boys may compete in

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, and

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. Girls may compete in

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

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and

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. While not sponsored by the IHSA, ETHS also sponsors a team for boys in lacrosse. Both boys and girls may also compete as a member of the

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team (Pomkits). The following sports teams have won their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament: *Badminton (girls): 1991–92 *Basketball (boys):1967–68 *Cross Country (boys): 1953–54, 1966–67 *Gymnastics (boys):, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1966–67 *Soccer (girls): 2001–02 *Swimming & Diving (boys): 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1959–60, 2000–01, 2004–05 *Tennis (boys): 1943–44, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1969–70 *Track & Field (boys): 1921–22, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1978–79 *Track & Field (girls): 1990–91, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 As of 2009, the Evanston boys swimming team has 53 top ten finishes in the state finals; the second highest number of top ten finishes in state history. The boys track & field team, similarly, has 47 top ten finishes, the second highest number of any team in the state. The 25 top ten finishes by the girls track & field team is, however, a state record. The following competitive teams have won their respective IHSA Sponsored state championships: *

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: 1978–79, 1982–83, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2004–05

Activities

Students compete in contests in math, science,

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, world languages, speech, writing, and many other subjects. Examples include the Geometry Bridge Building Contest, the Regional Science Bowl Competition of the Society of Hispanic Engineers, and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual essay contest. Students can participate in more than 80 clubs and activities at ETHS, including Ambassadors, Wildkit Buddies, Chess Club, E-Squad Step Team, E-Town Tuners Car Club, ETHS Dance Company, Gender and Sexuality Alliance, Hip Hop Club/Slam Team, Latino QUEST,

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Rock Climbing Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and ...

Club, Mock Trial, Student Council and Senate,

Team, and

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.History & Fast Facts / Fast Facts
/ref> ETHS hosts 3 dances during the school year: Homecoming Dance, Frosh/Soph Formal (grades 9-10), and Senior Prom (grade 12). Student-led publications include the national award-winning Evanstonian newspaper, the EvanstONION satirical newspaper, the Paper Clip, and the award-winning school yearbook, The Key. ETHS has four honor societies: the Lighthouse Chapter of the

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(juniors and seniors), the ETHS Chapter of the

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Music Honor Society (juniors and seniors), and ETHS-based honor societies (sophomores and freshmen). Student vocal and instrumental music groups and theater companies perform at least one public performance a month. Since 2014, ETHS musical ensembles have performed at the

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; the

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SuperState Festival at the

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; the ILMEA's annual Illinois Music Education Conference; and the Louisville Jazz Festival. In February, the school hosts a regional jazz music festival attended by nearly 50 schools, featuring performances, clinics, and an evening concert with a guest artist.

Speech and Debate

Students from Evanston captured the IHSA State Championship in Speech in 1951, Policy Debate in 1968, 1971, 1979, 1993, and 1995, Lincoln-Douglas Debate in 2004, 2014, and 2015, and Public Forum Debate in 2015. ETHS is the first school to ever hold the Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas titles in the same year. The ETHS Speech and Debate program has risen to national prominence in the last half decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate tournament, the ''Superb Owl''.

Notable alumni

Some notable alumni include: John Cusack

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Notable staff

* John T. Riddell was a football coach at the school and invented the removable cleat, and later invented the plastic suspension

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. He later founded Riddell, the sporting goods company.

In popular culture

* The 2004 film ''

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'' (2004) is set in Evanston, and its fictitious "North Shore High School" was inspired by Evanston Township High School. Filming took place in

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References

External links

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