Willowbrook High School
| Willowbrook High School | |
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| Address | |
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1250 S. Ardmore Avenue Villa Park, Illinois 60181 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°51′53″N 87°58′57″W / 41.8647°N 87.9825°W |
| Information | |
| School type | public secondary |
| Opened | 1959 |
| School district | DuPage H.S. District 88 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Scott Helton |
| Principal | Dan Krause |
| Staff | 139 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | co-ed |
| Enrollment | 2,145 |
| Average class size | 24.5 |
| Campus | suburban |
| School colour(s) |
columbia blue silver |
| Fight song | Fight Roman Warriors |
| Athletics conference | West Suburban Conference |
| Nickname | Warriors |
| Average ACT scores | 21.6 |
| Publication | Mindprints |
| Newspaper | Skyline |
| Yearbook | Centurion |
| Website | www |
Willowbrook High School (WBHS) is a public four-year high school located approximately half a mile north of Illinois Route 38 on Ardmore Ave in Villa Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of School District 88, which also includes Addison Trail High School. Willowbrook draws its students from Villa Park, Oakbrook Terrace, and portions of Elmhurst, Oak Brook and Lombard.
Planning for the school began as early as 1950 when projected growth for the area suggested that a new high school would soon be needed. In January, 1958, the school board not only decided that the new school was to be called Willowbrook (referring to a nearby creek running thru a stand of weeping willow trees), but that the school would be prepared to admit students in all four grades once the school opened in 1959.
When the school opened, the principal drafted a group of upperclassmen to help shape the schools traditions (colors, team nickname, student council constitution, etc.). Until the middle of the 1969-1970 school year, students were required to follow a dress code which prohibited (among other things) jeans for both genders and long hair for young men.
In 1961, a bust of Thomas Jefferson was added to the southeast wall of the school. The bust had been recovered from the demolition of the Louis Sullivan designed Garrick Theater in Chicago by relatives of a (then) current student who were contractors in the theater's demolition.
In 1963, a north wing was added, including district offices located on the first floor portion of the wing.
In the 1980s, improved vocational education areas were added, as was a greenhouse, and expansion of the library.
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