Downers Grove South High School
| Downers Grove South High School | |
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1436 Norfolk Street Downers Grove, Illinois 60516 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°46′15″N 88°01′15″W / 41.7708°N 88.0207°WCoordinates: 41°46′15″N 88°01′15″W / 41.7708°N 88.0207°W |
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| School type | Public |
| Opened | 1964 |
| School district | Community HS Dist. 99 |
| Superintendent | Henry Thiele |
| Principal | Edward H. Schwartz |
| Staff | 301 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Co-Ed |
| Enrollment | 2,785 (2014-15) |
| Average class size | 21.0 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| School colour(s) |
navy blue columbia blue |
| Athletics conference | West Suburban Conference |
| Nickname | Mustangs |
| Average ACT scores | 22.0 |
| Publication | Calliope |
| Newspaper | Blueprint Pony Express |
| Yearbook | Caracole |
| Radio station | WDGC (88.3 FM) |
| Cable TV Station | Channel 29 |
| Website | http://www.csd99.org/south/ |
Downers Grove South High School, or DGS, and locally referred to as "South," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Dunham Road and 63rd Street in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove North High School. The South campus draws students from Downers Grove (south of 55th St.), the majority of Woodridge, half of Darien (west of Cass Ave.), and small sections of Bolingbrook and Westmont.
The school opened its doors in 1964 and the student population at Downers Grove High School was split in two, half going to the original structure now named Downers Grove North, and half going to the new building. It has since undergone significant renovations to bring it up to date, including a $49.5 million voter referendum for the district in 2001. In the summer of 2008 the school embarked on a parking space expansion on campus, which had been plagued by delays. Despite several causes for postponement, parking lot adjustments were prepared in time to effectively start the 2008—09 school year. On Friday, 22 June 2011 at around 8:30 pm, South High School received extensive damage to its outdoor sports areas during a two-minute EF1 tornado: fences around the tennis courts were flattened, portable toilets and rows of bleachers were flipped upside-down as well as some fallen branches across the school's football/soccer field.
In 2008, Downers Grove South had an average composite ACT score of 22.0, 0.5 points above the state average. DGS graduated 96.7% of its senior class. Downers Grove South has not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which with the ACT, are the assessment tools used to fulfill mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. While the school as a whole did make AYP, two of the six student subgroups failed to meet expectations in reading.
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