Maine West High School
| Maine West High School | |
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| Address | |
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1755 South Wolf Road Des Plaines, Illinois 60018 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°01′16″N 87°54′25″W / 42.021°N 87.907°WCoordinates: 42°01′16″N 87°54′25″W / 42.021°N 87.907°W |
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| School type | public, secondary |
| Opened | 1959 |
| School district | Maine Twp. H.S. 207 |
| NCES District ID | 1724090 |
| Superintendent | Ken Wallace |
| NCES School ID | 172409005032 |
| Principal | Audrey J. Haugan |
| Teaching staff | 169.76 (FTE) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2310 (2011-12) |
| Average class size | 22 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.6:1 |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) |
Columbia blue gold white |
| Athletics conference | Central Suburban League |
| Team name | Warriors |
| Average ACT scores (2010-11) | 21.4 |
| Publication | West Words |
| Newspaper | Westerner |
| Yearbook | Legend |
| TV/radio station | WMTH |
| Website | http://west.maine207.org/ |
Maine West High School, also known as Maine West or MWHS, is a public four-year high school located in Des Plaines, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Maine Township High School District 207, which also includes Maine East High School and Maine South High School. Maine Township High School West serves most of Des Plaines and a portion of Rosemont.
In 1957, with the population of the district predicted to rise, the school district leadership purchased 73 acres (300,000 m2) of land which had been the location of two truck farms.
While the school was designed to be home to 3,000 students, there was concern about the environment being too large. Thus, the school's design was made with a central core, and three classroom wings, each of which would be its own separate school.
While opened in time for the start of the 1959–60 school year, the school was formally dedicated on November 8, 1959.
In 1974, Maine West won a contest to have KISS play at their school. On November 2, 1974, Kiss played in Maine West's auditorium.
On October 31, 1980, five days before the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan appeared at Maine West with actors Cesar Romero and Robert Conrad, giving a 30-minute address to the students and other invited guests.
The floor plan could be compared to a cross, with a rotunda at the center, and several wings extending outward from the rotunda like branches of a cross.
The rotunda, is circled by a corridor on the first and second floor. A staircase connecting the two floors of the rotunda is found in the lobby of the main entrance. In the middle of the first floor is the student cafeteria. On the outside of the first floor rotunda are offices (including the main office) and the faculty cafeteria. The center of the upper floor of the rotunda contains the auditorium.
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