Libertyville High School
| Libertyville High School | |
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| Address | |
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708 W. Park Ave. Libertyville, Illinois 60048 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′05″N 87°57′58″W / 42.284778°N 87.96602°W |
| Information | |
| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1917 |
| School district | Community High School District 128 |
| Superintendent | Prentiss Lea |
| Principal | Dr. Marina Scott |
| Faculty | 300 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2,022 (2008) |
| Average class size | 20.5 |
| Campus | suburban |
| School colour(s) |
orange Black |
| Slogan | "Excellence is our standard" |
| Fight song | Libertyville and Roaster |
| Athletics conference | North Suburban Conference |
| Mascot | Willy the Wildcat |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
| Team name | Libertyville |
| Average ACT scores | 25.0 |
| Publication | Slant of Light |
| Newspaper | Drops of Ink |
| Yearbook | Nautilus |
| Website | lhswildcats |
Libertyville High School, or LHS, is a public four-year high school located in Libertyville, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Located at the intersection of Park Avenue (IL Rte 176) and Dawes Street, it sits on the shore of Butler Lake and is part of Community High School District 128, which also includes Vernon Hills High School.
The school was founded as Libertyville Township High School in 1917. The original building (the Brainerd Building) remained in use until 1956, when the Butler Lake Campus (pictured below) opened its doors. The Brainerd Building later served as the high school's Freshman campus, requiring students to commute about a quarter mile by foot between the two campuses. With the opening of Vernon Hills High School in 1999, the Brainerd Building was phased out as the Freshman campus, and the entire student body was eventually consolidated at Butler Lake. When Brainerd first opened in the fall there were 138 students from Libertyville and the surrounding towns, and seven teachers. In July 2008, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places for its role as the first four-year high school building in Central Lake County, and its over 80 subsequent years of continued use. Plans to rehabilitate it for community use were unsuccessful and, to make way for athletic fields, demolition of the building began December 2014. In 2003, Libertyville High School began a $9 million expansion project to add new offices, classrooms and an expansion of the school's music department.
In the film Public Enemies, footage of the school's science lab, an office, the school's front entrance, and the locker rooms was filmed during spring break of March. The 2001 film New Port South was also filmed at Libertyville High School. Portions of the 2009 horror film The Unborn was filmed in the high school's locker rooms.
LHS draws students from several feeder schools in the area, the majority of which matriculate from Highland Middle School in Libertyville. Other school districts supplying students to LHS include the Vernon Hills-based Hawthorn School District 73, Oak Grove School District 68 in neighboring Green Oaks, Rondout School District 72 serving unincorporated Lake Forest, and St. Joseph Catholic School in Libertyville.
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