Alan B. Shepard High School
| Alan B. Shepard High School | |
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13049 S. Ridgeland Avenue Palos Heights, Illinois 60463 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°39′18″N 87°46′28″W / 41.6551°N 87.7744°W |
| Information | |
| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1976 |
| School district | Community HS 218 |
| Superintendent | Dr. John Byrne |
| Principal | Greg Walder |
| Staff | 173 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 1,908 |
| Average class size | 22.4 |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) |
brown orange |
| Song | We're the Astros |
| Fight song | Fight, Fight for Shepard High |
| Athletics conference | South Suburban Conference |
| Team name | Astros Lady Astros |
| Average ACT scores | 19.7 |
| Publication | Spectrum |
| Newspaper | Freedom 7 |
| Yearbook | Odyssey |
| Website | http://shepard.chsd218.org/ |
Alan B. Shepard High School is a public secondary school located in Palos Heights, Illinois. The school, along with Dwight D. Eisenhower High School and Harold L. Richards High School are part of Community High School District 218. Students who attend the school live in the communities of Palos Heights, Crestwood, Worth, Alsip, Robbins, and Calumet Park. The school is named in honor of Alan B. Shepard, the first American astronaut to travel into space.
As early as 1966, District 218 began looking for a site for a third high school. The school and local residents argued between two sites located on either side of the intersection of 120th Street and Pulaski Avenue in Alsip. In 1972, the district asked voters in the district to approve a bond issue to raise money for a new school to be located in Palos Heights.
In 2008, Shepard had an average composite ACT score of 19.7, and graduated 86.4% of its senior class. The school has not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which is the state assessment used to fulfill mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Overall, the school failed to meet minimum standards in reading and mathematics, in addition to having three of the school's four student subgroups fail to meet expectations in reading and mathematics.
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