Carl Sandburg High School
| Carl Sandburg High School | |
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13300 S. LaGrange Rd. Orland Park, Illinois 60462 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°38′59″N 87°51′23″W / 41.6496°N 87.8564°W |
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| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1954 |
| School district | Consolidated H.S. 230 |
| Superintendent | Dr. James Gay |
| CEEB code | 143325 |
| Principal | Deborah Baker |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 3,758 |
| Average class size | 22.7 |
| Campus size | 40 acres (0.16 km2) |
| Area | South Suburbs |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) |
royal blue gold |
| Athletics conference | Southwest Suburban |
| Team name | Eagles |
| Average SAT scores | 1600 |
| Average ACT scores | 22.7 |
| Newspaper | Aquila |
| Yearbook | Poet |
| Website | http://sandburg.d230.org/ |
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Carl Sandburg High School, Sandburg, or CSHS, is a public four-year high school located at the intersection of La Grange Road and 131st Street in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Consolidated High School District 230, which also includes Victor J. Andrew High School and Amos Alonzo Stagg High School. The school is named for Illinois-born poet, Carl Sandburg.
It serves sections of Orland Park and Orland Hills. An area including a portion of Orland Park around Sandburg High and a portion of Palos Park is zoned to Amos Alonzo Stagg High School but has Sandburg as an option.
In April 1952, two local school districts, Orland District 221 and Palos District 222 were consolidated into Consolidated High School District 230, for the express purpose of constructing a new high school. This new high school would replace an older high school which had been run by the Orland district at one of its grammar schools, along with rented space around the town for history, English, home economics, and science classes. The new school was designed to serve 450 students. The site of the school was an old corn field, which at the time was surrounded by a forest preserve, a lake, and a golf course.
A school board resolution called for the new school to be named for Carl Sandburg, out of "a desire for historic significance transcending purely local associations of the former school districts". In April 1953, it was announced that the new high school building would be named for the poet, after Sandburg "consented and expressed his pleasure" in a letter to the school board. At least until 1960, Sandburg visited the school every other year.
Ground breaking took place on the US$930,000 structure on 17 May 1953. The school was designed to be a one-story structure with a central gymnasium/auditorium capable of holding 1,200 people. A smaller two story section was to house agriculture, science, high! and business education classes as well as the school's library. The school was built with the specific intent to build additions on to the building as the student population grew. The school opened for classes in September 1954. The school was formally dedicated on October 10, 1954, with the school's namesake in attendance.
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