Wheaton Warrenville South High School

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Wheaton Warrenville South High School
Motto Semper Tigris - "Always a Tiger"
Established 1992
Type Public secondary
Principal Dr. Dawn Snyder
Faculty 135
Students 2,341
Grades 9–12
Location 1993 Tiger Trail
Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Campus Suburban, 51 acres
Colors Orange and Black
Mascot Tiger
Newspaper The Pride
Website www.wwshs.org

Wheaton Warrenville South High School, or WWSHS, and locally referred to as "South," is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Butterfield Road and Wiesbrook Road in the southwest corner of affluent Wheaton, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community Unit School District 200, which also includes Wheaton North High School.

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The building was originally completed in 1973, as Wheaton-Warrenville High school, to serve the growing populations in Warrenville and southern Wheaton. Ten years after its completion, the building was converted into Wheaton-Warrenville Middle School after contentious litigation whereby a collection of parents associated with Wheaton Warrenville south attempted to secede from District 200. Among other issues, parents attempting to secede were concerned about proposed district boundaries where students on the south side of town would be asked to drive past Wheaton Central on their way to attend Wheaton North. The litigation failed. In 1992, Wheaton Central High School campus closed and the building re-opened itself as a high school, establishing Wheaton Warrenville South High School.[1] However, district 200 elected to retain the Tiger mascot in lieu of the green and gold Wolverine that Wheaton Warrenville High School had used.

The building comprises five major pods: Grange, completed in 2005, and Tradition, Scholarship, Commitment, and Integrity, which are taken from the school seal.

In 1999, the Integrity wing was built in the southeast corner of the school to house the math department. It includes eleven new classrooms, a math lab, and a math office.

In 2002, The Tradition and Commitment pods, primarily housing the English and Science departments, respectively, underwent significant renovations with reconstruction of all second floor classrooms. More than $100,000 worth of technology was also upgraded in 2002, with all classrooms receiving at least one new Dell XP computer connecting to a new broadband internet access connection, Cable TV, accompanying DVD/VCR combo player. The computer labs were also updated and several carts of wireless internet laptops were added.

Wheaton Warrenville South installed solar panels on the roof of the school as an alternative energy source as part of a 2004 partnership with British Petroleum.[2] BP's North American Chemical headquarters is located approximately two miles south of the school in Naperville. The remaining energy comes from Commonwealth Edison, which primarily produces energy from nuclear and fossil fuel sources.

On April 1, 2003, residents of Community Unit School District 200 approved, by a vote of 10,173 to 6,518,[3] a $72 million bond referendum to add about 150,000 square feet of space and renovate both Wheaton Warrenville South, and its counterpart, Wheaton North.

The first phase of construction began in August 2003 and was completed in March 2005 and included 21 new classrooms with two resource centers to house the English and Foreign Language departments, two art rooms, a band room, an orchestra room, a choral room, and nine sound-proof practice rooms. In addition, the central office area was reconverted for the counseling center and the health office, while all other administrative offices were moved to the front of the building. A new commons area was constructed and the cafeteria underwent significant renovations.

The second phase began in spring 2005 and was completed by May 2006 and consisted primarily of renovations to the athletics wing and the construction of the field house. The library has undergone significant renovations during summer of 2006.

In 2005, Wheaton Warrenville South had an average composite ACT score of 22.1, while two seniors earned a perfect ACT score of 36.[4] In addition to this, ten students were named National Merit Scholar Semifinalists.[5] In 2005, Wheaton Warrenville South graduated 99.2% of its senior class.[citation needed] For the past three years, Wheaton Warrenville South has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.[6]

The staff comprises 135 teachers with an average teacher to student ratio of 1:18, and an average class size of 24.4.

All academic classes at South are divided into three difficulty levels: Regular, Intermediate, and Advanced. The increased difficulty of intermediate and advanced/AP classes is reflected in the school's G.P.A. weighting system. Instead of a standard 4.0 scale, South uses a 5.0 scale. An A grade in an Regular class earns a pupil 4.0 points, an A in an Intermediate class 5.0 points, and an A in an Advanced or AP class 6.0 points.

Dr. Dawn Snyder is the current principal.

The school day officially begins at 7:20 AM and finishes at 2:15 PM. There are seven class periods of approximately fifty minutes in length, and a 25 minute lunch break. Each passing period is six minutes.

Students are required to successfully complete twenty-four credits, each course at .5 credit.

South's mascot is the Tiger. They have a large rivalry with their counterpart Wheaton North High School. Wheaton Warrenville South competes in several Illinois High School Association-sanctioned interscholastic sports:

Wheaton Warrenville South has won IHSA state championships in boys football, boys track and field, boys gymnastics and boys volleyball. Their most recent titles came in 2006-07 season, when the football team defeated Mount Carmel High School for the 8A football title, and when the boys volleyball team defeated New Trier High School for the volleyball title.

In addition to the IHSA-sanctioned sports listed above, Wheaton Warrenville South also offers Fencing, Ice Hockey, Ultimate Frisbee, and Lacrosse as club sports.

Wheaton High School (1876-1925)

Wheaton Community High School (1925-1964)

Wheaton Central High School (1964-1992)

Wheaton-Warrenville High School (1973-1983)

Wheaton Warrenville South High School (1992-Present)

Kevin Streelman 1997 - 2008 Member of the P.G.A. Tour==References==

  1. ^ Wheaton Warrenville South High School History
  2. ^ Wheaton Warrenville South and BP Solar Energy Partnership
  3. ^ High School Expansion
  4. ^ Wheaton Warrenville South Students Score Perfect ACT Score
  5. ^ Community Unit School District 200 State of the District Address
  6. ^ Illinois School Report Card

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