Auburn High School (Rockford, Illinois)
| Auburn High School | |
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| Address | |
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5110 Auburn Street Rockford, Illinois 61101 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′13″N 89°08′16″W / 42.28694°N 89.13778°WCoordinates: 42°17′13″N 89°08′16″W / 42.28694°N 89.13778°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public Secondary |
| Opened | 1960 |
| School district | Rockford Public School District 205 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Ehren Robert Jarrett |
| CEEB code | 143693 |
| Principal | Janice Hawkins |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 1976 |
| Average class size | 23.0 |
| Campus type | Mid-size City |
| Color(s) |
Red Black |
| Fight song | Mighty Auburn |
| Athletics conference | Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10) |
| Mascot | Knight |
| Team name | (Lady) Knights |
| Average ACT scores | 19.9 |
| Yearbook | Excalibur |
| Website | Official School Website |
Auburn High School is a public high school located in Rockford, Illinois, US, housing close to 2,000 ninth- through twelfth-grade students living in the Rockford school district.
In addition to serving students living on the west side of Rockford, Auburn houses the high school portions of the Renaissance Academy(formerly known as the Gifted Program), the Creative and Performing Arts Program (CAPA), and the only Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program remaining in Rockford.
Auburn maintains a standard offering of typical academic core, foreign language, and basic career preparation courses, along with honors offerings for a small number of widely taken subjects. Most students who desire to take advanced or specialized classes feed in to Auburn's specialized programs described below:
The Renaissance Academy program is the high school component of the Rockford Public Schools' Gifted Program for high-achieving students. The Renaissance Academy program is selective, with admittance based on annual testing, and along with Marshall School and Washington School, which serves grades 1 through 5 and 6 through 8 respectively, forms the Gifted Program in Rockford. This program continually ranks high in the state with respect to test scores. With Academy and non-Academy test scores separated, the Academy frequently ranks among the top student bodies in the nation in both middle school standardized tests and high school ACT scores.
The Academy program currently offers AP courses in English Literature and Composition, English Language and Composition, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C, World History, European History, United States History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, United States Government and Politics, Comparative Politics, and Psychology, as well as Music Theory and Art History through independent study. The remaining non-AP core academic requirements for graduation are supplemented with Renaissance Academy-level core classes, and an Academy Seal of distinction is offered to students who successfully complete four years of Academy and AP courses in each of four core academic categories while maintaining good academic standing.
The Auburn School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) is the 9th-12th grade portion of the district's K-12 CAPA specialized arts program. Auburn CAPA students can take academic coursework via regular, honors, or Academy courses while continuing training in visual arts, music, dance, and theatre through coursework and involvement in arts festivals, recitals, and a five-production theatre season.
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