Waubonsie Valley High School
| Waubonsie Valley High School | |
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2590 Ogden Avenue Aurora, Illinois 60504 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°44′18″N 88°15′06″W / 41.73839°N 88.25164°W |
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| School type | Public Secondary |
| Motto | Excellence in Every Endeavor |
| Opened | 1975 |
| School district | Indian Prairie S.D. 204 |
| Superintendent | Karen Sullivan |
| Principal | Jason Stipp |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2,571 |
| Average class size | 22.9 |
| Campus | suburban |
| School colour(s) |
Green Gold |
| Fight song | "We are the Warriors" |
| Athletics conference | DuPage Valley Conference |
| Mascot | Chief Waubonsie |
| Nickname | Warriors |
| Average ACT scores | 23.2 |
| Publication | Premier |
| Newspaper | The Voice |
| Yearbook | Arrowhead |
| Website | http://wvhs.ipsd.org |
Waubonsie Valley High School, or WVHS, is a public four-year high school at the corner of Ogden Avenue and Eola Road in Aurora, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Other high schools in Indian Prairie School District 204 are Neuqua Valley High School, Metea Valley High School, and Indian Plains Alternative High School.
Indian Prairie Community Unit School District #204 (a unit district K-12) was formed in the fall of 1972. In December 1972 a referendum was passed to build and equip a high school at a projected cost of $8.2 million. A separate issue also passed to add a swimming pool. Construction on Waubonsie Valley High School began in the spring of 1973. Tom Gibbs was hired as the first Principal. Since his tenure, Gary Elmen, Marilyn Weaver, Jim Schmid, Kristine Marchiando, and Jason Stipp have served as Principal.
In September 1975, Waubonsie Valley opened its doors for its first school year. 293 Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors attended the new high school. In addition, 7th and 8th graders were housed in the building (using the name Granger Junior High) until Hill Junior High (now Hill Middle School) opened in the Fall of 1981. Construction delays prevented students from using the gym until May 1976 and the pool until October 1976.
The school was designed as an open campus, with very few walls to separate classes. This quickly gave way to temporary room dividers and eventually, more permanent walls. Major construction projects over the years added three classroom wings, a field house and an auditorium, leaving just a few clues as to the original design of the building. The school was considered futuristic with a swimming pool, greenhouse, and planetarium.
During the summer of 2006, the school was renovated and various improvements were made. The atrium received a "face lift" in the form of a new style around the pillars and floor tile. In the hallways, the school was repainted with different shades of green and a wooden oak trim. The school also repaved the 12 tennis courts and rebuilt the rubber track. This renovation cost approximately $7.5 million.
The campus consisted of two buildings: a "Gold Campus" building (currently Gregory Fischer Middle School) for Freshman (Grade 9). It has been converted from Francis Granger Middle School in 1993 to Waubonsie's Gold Campus in 2003 to Gregory Fischer Middle School since 2009. A "Green Campus" building (the original WVHS main building) was for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors (Grades 10-12), but now houses all four grades. During the 2000s, the Indian Prairie School District converted middle schools for both Waubonsie Valley and its sister school, Neuqua Valley High School into "Gold Campus buildings", due to high enrollment numbers and classroom overcrowding. However, Waubonsie's "Gold Campus" returned to being a middle school after the opening of Metea Valley High School in 2009. As of 2012, there were 3,689 students enrolled at Waubonsie.
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