Glenbrook North High School
| Glenbrook North High School | |
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2300 Shermer Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°06′41″N 87°50′03″W / 42.11133°N 87.83422°W |
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| School type | public secondary |
| Motto | We Educate For Living |
| Opened | 1952 |
| School district | Glenbrook High School District 225 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Michael Riggle |
| Principal | Dr. John Finan |
| Staff | 321 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2118 |
| Average class size | 18.2 |
| Campus | suburban |
| School colour(s) |
forest green yellow gold |
| Athletics conference | Central Suburban League |
| Mascot | Sparty Jones |
| Nickname | Spartans |
| Average ACT scores | 26.3 |
| Publication | Euphonium |
| Newspaper | Torch |
| Yearbook | Laconian' |
| Website | http://www.glenbrook225.org/gbn/Home |
Glenbrook North High School, or GBN, is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Glenbrook Township High School District, which also includes Glenbrook South High School.
Glenbrook North High School, which opened its doors in the fall of 1952 as Glenbrook High School, serves the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Northbrook.
Today, Glenbrook North High School, along with Glenbrook South, are noted for their outstanding curriculum and quality of education, having been repeatedly named to a variety of best-in-the-nation lists. For example, as part of the First in the World Consortium, GBN and GBS students scored first in the world in international math & science testing. In January 1997, President Bill Clinton visited GBN, and gave a speech discussing the need for more schools to adopt international education standards in math and science. See "Bill Clinton Visit" below.
Glenbrook North alum John Hughes' 1985 film The Breakfast Club featured a group of kids from "Shermer, Illinois 60062." Shermerville was the original name of the town of Northbrook, where GBN is located, and 60062 is the zip code. The movie features the clash between what were known during the 1980s as the 'sporto' versus 'freak' cultures at GBN. Some think the movie was filmed inside the school, but it was filmed at Maine North High School, which was also used for the interior scenes of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Exterior shots of GBN were used in both The Breakfast Club and the Ferris Bueller movie, however. A curious side note to all of this is that Charlie Schlatter, the actor who played Ferris in the TV series Ferris Bueller, is married to a GBN alumna who graduated in 1984.
The Glenbrook North debate team has won numerous state and national championships in Policy debate, as well as state championships in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debate. The team is the only high school debate team in the country to win the triple crown of debate, winning the National Forensic League tournament, the Tournament of Champions and the National Christian Forensic League tournaments in 2004. They were also ranked the top debate school of the century based on appearances in the National Forensics League final round. In both 2010 and 2011, the school won two of the three state final championships for debate in the IHSA state tournament, in the Policy and Lincoln-Douglas divisions, in addition to winning novice and junior varsity final championships for debate in the ISTA state tournament in 2011. In addition, their novice policy team won the novice final championship in the ISTA state tournament in 2017, winning on a 3-0 decision against Oak Park River Forest High School from Oak Park, Illinois. In 2012, the school won the New Trier tournament, and lost in finals of the novice and varsity divisions of the state tournament, while the school won the junior varsity division. The school had the top speaker in the junior varsity and varsity divisions in 2012. Glenbrook North also debated in the finals of the 2012 Tournament of Champions, losing on a 2-1 decision to West High School from Iowa City, Iowa. In the 2012-2013 school year, the team won the Blake tournament, locked out the finals of the IHSA Varsity State Tournament, had the top speaker and thus all-state debate captain, debated in the finals of the 2013 Tournament of Champions, losing to C.K. McClatchy High School from Sacramento, California on a 2-1 decision, and finally won the National Forensic League National Championship in policy debate, defeating Glenbrook South in the finals on a 10-5 decision. It was the first time two schools from the same district debated each other in the finals.
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