Sandwich Community High School
| Sandwich Community High School | |
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| Address | |
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515 E. Lions Road Sandwich, Illinois 60548 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°38′23″N 88°36′54″W / 41.63972°N 88.61500°WCoordinates: 41°38′23″N 88°36′54″W / 41.63972°N 88.61500°W |
| Information | |
| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1855 |
| School district | Sandwich Community Unit School District 430 |
| Superintendent | Rick Schmitt |
| CEEB code | 143830 |
| Principal | Tom Sodaro |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 750 |
| Campus | rural |
| School colour(s) |
black orange |
| Athletics conference | Interstate Eight Conference |
| Nickname | Indians/Lady Indians |
| Average ACT scores | 20.7 |
| Yearbook | Reflector |
| Communities served | Sandwich, Somonauk, Lake Holiday, Sheridan, Plano, Millington, Newark |
| Website | Sandwich High School |
Sandwich Community High School is a public four-year secondary education school located in Sandwich, Illinois, United States. The high school is part of Sandwich Community Unit School District 430. The school is a member of the Interstate Eight Conference, and the school participates in Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Cross Country, Soccer, Golf, Boys/Girls Basketball, Wrestling, Boys/Girls Track & Field, Fishing, Swimming and Diving, Doing It, Scholastic Bowl, and all music-related competitions. The high school is currently a class 4A school in Football, while competing as class A or B in other events due to its enrollment size.
School was initially held at Herman E. Dummer School, which at that time served as the high school until the class sizes grew too big for the school. The new high school was opened in 1967, and the facility on Lions Road is still used to this day for the high school. With the help of a few referendums, the school has added on and grown a few times since the initial construction, with the last phase of addition having been in the summer of 2007 with the addition of two portable classrooms onto the site to allow for more classes to be held. The school district currently has purchased land near the intersection of E. Lions Road and N. Millington Road, with the intent to build a new high school, but when that will be is still undetermined.
As of the 2015-2016 School Year, Sandwich competes as part of the Interstate Eight Conference, with its inclusion into the conference having been in 1979. Before that, Sandwich was part of the Little Ten Conference, of which it was one of the schools included during the conference's creation. Sandwich had received regular-season basketball championships in the conference in 1920, 1927, and 1937. In 1967, Sandwich and Plano High School both left to form the Northeast Conference, which later became the Interstate Eight Conference. Sandwich won four state titles for wrestling in 1991, 1997, 1999, and 2001. The Cross Country and Track & Field programs at the school are normally perennial qualifiers for postseason competition, but as of this time, there is no state title.
Sandwich and neighboring Plano have had a contentious history, not only due to them sharing a common border, but they also reside along the DeKalb-Kendall County Line, which sits only about a mile away from Sandwich High School. Both schools were charter members of the Little Ten Conference, which tied them together as far back as 1919. Sandwich also followed Plano's departure from the conference in 1967, so it is fair to say that both are tied to the other's history. The rivalry game was traditionally played during the Sandwich Fair, on the Friday or 3rd Day of the Fair. Usually after the game, fans of both schools, whose strong rivalry generally carries over off of the field and into the fairgrounds, resulting in taunting and fighting between the fans throughout the rest of the night of the game. This was the case until 2006, when the conference added four more schools into the then eight member conference, resulting in a conference divisional split and the schools being placed in opposite divisions based on size. It was then decided that the game would be moved back later into the season to accommodate more teams earlier in the season. However, Plano grew in size, and was allowed to replace one of the smaller schools in the other division, and both schools were together once again. The schools have competed against each other since, with Sandwich having won the most recent meeting against the two high schools. Sandwich has won 5 of the last 10 meetings, with two of the losses having come from a Back-to-Back IHSA 4A Championship Plano team in 2005 and 2006.
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