Addison Trail High School | |
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Address | |
213 N. Lombard Rd. Addison, Illinois 60101 United States |
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Coordinates | 41°55′52″N 88°01′15″W / 41.9311°N 88.0209°W |
Information | |
School type | public secondary |
Opened | 1965 |
School district | DuPage H.S. District 88 |
Superintendent | Dr. Scott Helton |
Principal | Michael Bolden |
Staff | 182 |
Grades | 9—12 |
Gender | co-ed |
Enrollment | 1,874 |
Average class size | 18.1 |
Campus | Suburban |
School color(s) |
Navy blue White |
Slogan | Academically Engaged, Trustworthy, Honorable, and Safe |
Fight song | A.T. Blazers Go! |
Athletics conference | West Suburban Conference |
Mascot | Bucky the Blazer |
Nickname | Blazers |
Average ACT scores | 20.5 |
Newspaper | Torch |
Yearbook | ATtribute |
Website | http://www.dupage88.net/index.php?website_id=2 |
Addison Trail High School (ATHS) is a public four-year high school in DuPage County, located approximately half a mile east of Interstate 355 at the intersection of Army Trail Road and Lombard Road in Addison, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of DuPage High School District 88 (originally Addison District #4), which also includes Willowbrook High School. Addison Trail draws its students from Addison and unincorporated areas adjacent to Lombard and Wood Dale.
Addison Trail has roughly 1,939 students in the grades 9-12, and have 182 teachers staffed in the school year of 2015-2016. Addison Trail is ranked as the 472nd best high school in Illinois
The population at Addison Trail, as of 2014, is 57.6% Hispanic, 4.8% Asian, 3.1% African American, 33% white, and 2.1% being two or more races.
Addison Trail opened in 1965. During construction circa 1961, it was named Army Trail High School, after the street that is situated on. The students that attended Addison Trail the year it opened were mostly transfers from York Community High School and Willowbrook High School, Addison Trail's two sister school.
In 2008, Addison Trail had an average composite ACT score of 25.5 and graduated 98.5% of its senior class. Addison Trail has met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which with the ACT, comprise the assessments used to fulfill the mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school as a whole exceeded expectations in reading, and three of the four students subgroups met the expectations in both mathematics and reading.