Normal Community High School
| Normal Community High School | |
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| Address | |
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3900 East Raab Road Normal, Illinois, McLean County United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°32′00″N 88°54′52″W / 40.53329°N 88.91446°WCoordinates: 40°32′00″N 88°54′52″W / 40.53329°N 88.91446°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public, secondary school |
| Established | 1905 |
| School district | Unit 5 |
| CEEB code | 143200 |
| Principal | David Bollmann |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coeducational |
| Color(s) |
Orange Black |
| Athletics conference | Big Twelve |
| Nickname | Ironmen |
| Website | http://www.unit5.org/nchs |
Normal Community High School (NCHS) is a public high school located in Normal, Illinois that was founded in 1905. NCHS serves parts of Normal, Bloomington, and Towanda and is home to over 2,000 students (grades 9–12) with 150 faculty and staff.
Normal Community High School was founded in 1905.
An early NCHS building was built in 1927. It had 14 classrooms, a gymnasium, library, and administrative offices. The average enrollment was 350. By 1954, NCHS had grown to the point where additional classrooms and facilities were needed. This resulted in two additions, one at the north end, housing a cafeteria and music and speech classrooms, and one at the south end, housing a new gymnasium (Arends), physics lab, agriculture lab, metals lab, woodworking lab and electronics lab.
Again, in 1967, the growth of the community and increased enrollment resulted in an addition to the NCHS building. This included another new gymnasium (Neuman), a new cafeteria, a new library, new biology and chemistry labs, an automotive lab, new classrooms and office space for the Unit 5 Superintendent. Average student enrollment after this addition was over 1,350 students, peaking at 1,956 in 1974, immediately before the opening of Parkside Junior High School and the movement of 9th grade students to Chiddix and Parkside.
Explosive growth of the Unit 5 population base in the 1980s and 1990s, which continues to the present time, led to a need for another high school in Normal, and in 1995, Normal Community West High School, often called simply Normal West, was completed. Some students who would have attended NCHS were transferred to Normal West when the latter opened. Athletic and other rivalries continue to exist between the two schools.
On March 21, 2000, the Unit 5 Referendum was passed. This referendum approved a spending budget of over $US73 million, of which the State of Illinois would fund nearly $US18 million, for new construction and renovation of Unit 5 facilities. A new campus opened for NCHS on an entirely new site on Raab Road, northeast of Normal, in August, 2003. The new school includes state-of-the-art, modern facilities for all academic and co-curricular programs. It even includes a swimming pool.
A portion of the previous NCHS building was remodeled and became a new junior high school (Kingsley Junior High School) for Unit 5. The original 1927 construction was torn down and the 1954 and 1967 sections were completely updated.
In the fall of 2003, NCHS officially opened at its new location on Raab Road. This marked the beginning of the first school year at Normal Community's new location.
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