Highland Park High School, Illinois
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433 Vine Avenue Highland Park, Illinois 60035 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°11′36″N 87°48′06″W / 42.19343°N 87.80158°WCoordinates: 42°11′36″N 87°48′06″W / 42.19343°N 87.80158°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Dream—Believe—Achieve |
| Opened | 1889 |
| School district | Township High School District 113 |
| Superintendent | Christopher Dignam |
| CEEB code | 142275 |
| Principal | Elizabeth Robertson |
| Teaching staff | 145.50 (FTE) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2,023 (2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.63 |
| Campus | suburban |
| Campus size | large |
| School colour(s) |
Blue White |
| Athletics conference | Central Suburban League |
| Team name | Giants |
| Average ACT scores | 26 |
| Publication | Sojourn |
| Newspaper | Shoreline |
| Yearbook | Little Giant |
| Website | HPHS |
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Highland Park High School (HPHS) is a public four-year high school located in Highland Park, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 113, which also includes Deerfield High School. Its feeder schools are Edgewood Middle School, Elm Place School, and Northwood Jr High School.
Prior to the 1949–50 school year, the school was known as Deerfield-Shields High School.
For a period of approximately fourteen years following Highland Park High School's establishment in 1886, classes were held in the rooms over the Brand Brothers paint shop in downtown Highland Park. It has occupied the present site on Vine Avenue since 1900. Over the course of time, however, several additions have been constructed. In 2000, HPHS and its sister school, Deerfield High School underwent a two-year, $75 million renovation and expansion project. HPHS received several new additions and renovations with 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) renovated and 77,000 square feet (7,200 m2) added. The additions and renovations were designed by Legat Architects and executed by VACALA Construction, Inc.
In 1983, Harvard sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot wrote The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture, which delved into the culture of American high schools as it related to the development of ethical conduct. Highland Park High School was one of two suburban schools profiled, in the chapter titled Highland Park High School: Hierarchies, Ambition, and Stress. While praising the school for its high academic achievement, Lawrence-Lightfoot noted that ideas like ethics and character were not emphasized as a part of the day-to-day working of the school. This point is brought up in a profile of HPHS alum Stephen Glass in Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles: Failures of Ethics in Leadership, in which Lawrence-Lightfoot's profile of the school is summed up as:
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