Glenbard West High School
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Glenbard West High School, or GWHS (also GBW and G-Dub), and locally referred to as "West," is a public four-year high school
located at the corner of Ellyn Avenue and Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States
. It is part of Glenbard Township High School District 87
. The West campus draws students from Glen Ellyn (primarily north of Illinois Route 38
), a small portion of Lombard
, and portions of Glendale Heights and Carol Stream.
The district purchased a site on Honeysuckle Hill for the price of US$
1. The current building opened in 1922 as Glenbard Township High School; the first of the district's high schools. The school was built in the style of a castle
, complete with roof turret
s.
Across the road from Glenbard West is Bill Duchon Field, where both football and other school sports are played such as both boys and girls soccer and track are played. Originally built in 1923, it was renamed in 1980 in honor of a former head football coach. Duchon was a very successful coach and turned the losing Glenbard West football team into a state championship team. The stadium seats up to 5,000 spectators, of which the home side overlooks Lake Ellyn. In 2001, Duchon field was named one of the top 10 places to watch high school football by USA Today.
, which featured rising stars such as Corey Haim
, Charlie Sheen
, Courtney Thorne-Smith
, Winona Ryder
, and Jeremy Piven
. The school building was also used for shooting scenes in the film, as well as other local sites such as the "Glen" movie theater in downtown Glen Ellyn. Glenbard West cheerleaders appeared as extras in the film, though the school colors and school name were changed.
The 1991
television documentary
Yearbook
was filmed here.
Glenbard West figures prominently in the award-winning young adult novel Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver.
It was also featured in the post-apocalyptic book The Girl Who Owned A City
by O. T. Nelson.
(AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which with the ACT, comprise the assessments used in Illinois to fulfill the federal No Child Left Behind Act
.
Glenbard West has been ranked among the top 1500 public schools in the United States six times, according to Newsweek's
challenge Index
. In 2009, the school ranked #1022. The school had been previsouly ranked #954 (2008), #673 (2007), #626 (2006), #684 (2005), and #711 (2003).
The Glenbard West Forensics team (Speech, Individual Events) won the team IHSA state championship trophy in 1991. Since then, the team has won numerous individual in State Finals. In 2010, the team tied for second overall.
The Glenbard West Theatre program performs in the Larry Shue
Auditorium. In 2008, the school's production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
was performed at the Illinois Theatrefest.
The Glenbard West Model United Nations
team regularly annually competes at the Brown University
, Harvard University
, University of California, Berkeley
, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Model UN Conferences. The team has received numerous awards at each of those conferences.
. The school is also a member of the Illinois High School Association
(IHSA), which governs most sports and competitive activities in Illinois. Teams are stylized as the Hilltoppers.
The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in: basketball
, cross country
, golf
, gymnastics
, soccer, swimming
& diving
, tennis
, track & field, and volleyball
. Young men may compete in baseball
, football
, and Scholastic wrestling
, while young women may compete in badminton
and softball
. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors lacrosse
teams for young men and women, in addition to field hockey
and poms for young women.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located at the corner of Ellyn Avenue and Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Glen Ellyn is an affluent village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the village population was 26,999.-Geography:...
, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is part of Glenbard Township High School District 87
Glenbard Township High School District 87
Glenbard Township High School District 87 is based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and consists of Glenbard South, Glenbard North, Glenbard East, and Glenbard West. It is the third largest school district in Illinois...
. The West campus draws students from Glen Ellyn (primarily north of Illinois Route 38
Illinois Route 38
Illinois Route 38 is an east–west state road that runs across northern Illinois. It runs from U.S. Route 52 in downtown Dixon to U.S. Highways 12, 20, and 45 in Westchester. This is a distance of . As Roosevelt Road it continues through Forest Park and into Cicero and Chicago before...
), a small portion of Lombard
Lombard, Illinois
Lombard, "The Lilac Village", is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. The population was 42,322 at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2004 to be 42,975.-History:...
, and portions of Glendale Heights and Carol Stream.
History
The first high school that students in the area attended was Glen Ellyn High School, which served students from 1916-1922. These classes were held at the DuPage Bank Building. By 1920, it was clear that a new facility was required as classes were spread between the bank building and local church basements.The district purchased a site on Honeysuckle Hill for the price of US$
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
1. The current building opened in 1922 as Glenbard Township High School; the first of the district's high schools. The school was built in the style of a castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
, complete with roof turret
Turret
In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification...
s.
Facilities
'Glenbard' as it was originally named, was constructed in 1922, atop Honeysuckle Hill, overlooking Lake Ellyn. Built with dark red brick, the building was built with castle-like design, complete with a turret and other minor castle details. Glenbard West also has a tower known as the fourth floor that if you look out of the window in the tower section of the building on a clear day you can see The Willis Tower. Athletics were initially played in a gymnasium built in the school building itself, but with the construction of a $12 million state of the art field house across the street, the once gym was turned into the Robert D. Elliott Library, named after one of the most influential principals in school history.Across the road from Glenbard West is Bill Duchon Field, where both football and other school sports are played such as both boys and girls soccer and track are played. Originally built in 1923, it was renamed in 1980 in honor of a former head football coach. Duchon was a very successful coach and turned the losing Glenbard West football team into a state championship team. The stadium seats up to 5,000 spectators, of which the home side overlooks Lake Ellyn. In 2001, Duchon field was named one of the top 10 places to watch high school football by USA Today.
In media
Billy Duchon Field was used to stage the football field scenes in the 1986 film LucasLucas (film)
Lucas is a 1986 American teen tragicomedy film directed by David Seltzer and starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen and Courtney Thorne-Smith. The film is particularly notable for being the screen debut of actress Winona Ryder.-Plot:...
, which featured rising stars such as Corey Haim
Corey Haim
Corey Ian Haim was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphy's Romance, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream...
, Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
, Courtney Thorne-Smith
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Courtney Thorne-Smith is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, and Cheryl Mabel in According to Jim, as well as her recurring role in Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy.-Early life:She was born in San Francisco,...
, Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition...
, and Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American film producer and actor best known for his role as Ari Gold in the television series Entourage for which he has won three Emmy Awards as well as several other nominations for Best Supporting Actor....
. The school building was also used for shooting scenes in the film, as well as other local sites such as the "Glen" movie theater in downtown Glen Ellyn. Glenbard West cheerleaders appeared as extras in the film, though the school colors and school name were changed.
The 1991
1991 in television
For the American TV schedule, see: 1991-92 United States network television schedule.The year 1991 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1991.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
television documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Yearbook
Yearbook (TV series)
Yearbook was a documentary television series that aired on the Fox Network in 1991. It is one of the earliest examples of a reality series as it chronicled the school and home lives of various students of Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago...
was filmed here.
Glenbard West figures prominently in the award-winning young adult novel Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver.
It was also featured in the post-apocalyptic book The Girl Who Owned A City
The Girl Who Owned a City
The Girl Who Owned a City is a novel by O. T. Nelson, first published in 1975. This book, sometimes taught in schools, is considered to be best suited for those between the ages of 10 and 15. The graphic novel adaptation by Dan Jolley with art by Joëlle Jones and Jenn Manley Lee has a scheduled...
by O. T. Nelson.
Academics
Glenbard West has made Adequate Yearly ProgressAdequate Yearly Progress
Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized...
(AYP) on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which with the ACT, comprise the assessments used in Illinois to fulfill the federal No Child Left Behind Act
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a United States Act of Congress concerning the education of children in public schools.NCLB was originally proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office...
.
Glenbard West has been ranked among the top 1500 public schools in the United States six times, according to Newsweek's
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
challenge Index
Challenge Index
The Challenge Index is a method for the statistical ranking of top public high schools in the United States by Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews...
. In 2009, the school ranked #1022. The school had been previsouly ranked #954 (2008), #673 (2007), #626 (2006), #684 (2005), and #711 (2003).
Activities
Glenbard West is home to a number of competitive activities that have represented the school well in numerous fields.The Glenbard West Forensics team (Speech, Individual Events) won the team IHSA state championship trophy in 1991. Since then, the team has won numerous individual in State Finals. In 2010, the team tied for second overall.
The Glenbard West Theatre program performs in the Larry Shue
Larry Shue
Larry Shue was an American playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner.-Early life:...
Auditorium. In 2008, the school's production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....
was performed at the Illinois Theatrefest.
The Glenbard West Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
team regularly annually competes at the Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Model UN Conferences. The team has received numerous awards at each of those conferences.
Athletics
Glenbard West competes in the West Suburban ConferenceWest Suburban Conference
The West Suburban Conference is an athletic conference in DuPage County and Cook County in the state of Illinois.The conference was founded in 1924.-Member schools:All of the schools are also members of the Illinois High School Association...
. The school is also a member of the Illinois High School Association
Illinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association is one of 521 state high school associations in the United States, designed to regulate competition in most interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High...
(IHSA), which governs most sports and competitive activities in Illinois. Teams are stylized as the Hilltoppers.
The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in: basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, soccer, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
& diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, track & field, and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. Young men may compete in baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, football
High school football
High school football, in North America, refers to the game of football as it is played in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations....
, and Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
, while young women may compete in badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
and softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
teams for young men and women, in addition to field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
and poms for young women.
- Basketball (girls): 3rd place (1998—99)
- Cross Country (boys): 4th place (1962—63, 67—68, 68—69, 77—78); 3rd place (1973—74); 2nd place (1958—59, 59—60, 61—62, 63—64); State Champions (1960—61)
- Cross Country (girls): 3rd place (1979—80); 2nd place (1980—81)
- Football: semifinals (2008—09); 2nd place (1976—77, 09—10); State Champions (1983—84)
- Golf (boys): 4th place (1992—93); 3rd place (1955—56, 93—94); 2nd place (1942—43, 44—45, 66—67)
- Gymnastics (boys): 4th place (2000—01); 3rd place (2006—07); 2nd place (1994—95, 97—98, 99—2000); State Champions (1995—96)
- Soccer (boys): 4th place (1991—92)
- Tennis (boys): 3rd place (1938—39)
- Track & Field (boys): 4th place (1932—33, 34—3572—73); 3rd place (1956—57, 69—70)
- Volleyball (girls): 3rd place (1981—82); 2nd place (1982—83); State Champions (1983—84)
- Volleyball (boys): 4th place (2011)
- Lacrosse (boys): 3rd place (2009); 2nd place (2010)
Notable alumni
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