| Elgin High School | |
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1200 Maroon Drive , 60120
United States
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| Coordinates | 42°01′36″N 88°14′43″W / 42.0267°N 88.2453°W / 42.0267; -88.2453 |
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| School type | public secondary |
| Motto | Education for all[3] |
| Opened | 1869; 155 years ago (1869) |
| School district | Elgin Area School District U46 |
| CEEB code | 141770[2] |
| Principal | Jamie Crosen |
| Teaching staff | 152.29 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | coed |
| Enrollment | 2,571 (2019–20)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.88[1] |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) | maroon cream[5] |
| Song | Alma Mater[3] |
| Fight song | Elgin High School Loyalty[3] |
| Athletics conference | Upstate 8 |
| Team name | Maroons[5] |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[4] |
| Publication | The Mirror |
| Yearbook | The Maroon |
| Nobel laureates | Paul Flory (1974, Chemistry) |
| Website | https://www.u-46.org/EHS |
Elgin High School, or EHS, is a public four-year high school located in Elgin, Illinois, an American city 40 mi. (63.5 km) northwest of Chicago. It is part of Elgin Area School District U46, which also includes Bartlett High School, Larkin High School, South Elgin High School, and Streamwood High School.
Elgin High School is one of the oldest public high schools in the state. Its first graduation ceremony was held in 1872 and its accreditation dates back to 1904. It was formerly housed on Gifford Street adjacent to Gifford Park in a building that now serves as the Dream Academy as well as the home for specialized student services. A modern addition houses the school district offices. A new campus was constructed on the eastern edge of Elgin adjacent to Poplar Creek, which is its present location. Elgin High was first established in 1869 in Illinois and has changed locations three times since then.
School colors are maroon and cream. There is no mascot currently. The nickname "The Maroons" refers to the color of the early football sweaters. In the early 1980s the student body chose a fictional character "Chief Mighty Maroon" to be the school mascot in attempt to have a physical representation of the nickname. Previously, for generations, there had been no mascot with the school nickname being "The Maroons" based on the school colors. The short lived mascot was dropped in the early 2000s due to its insensitive portrayal of Indigeous Peoples. As a replacement for a mascot each incoming freshmen class chooses a mascot and a class color to represent their year.
A full history of the school, 1869-1969, be found in Elgin High: A Centennial History and Record Book by E.C. Alft, available in the library of the Elgin History Museum.
As of 2018-2019, Elgin is ranked 9,708 nationally, 308 in Illinois High Schools, 226 in Chicago Metra Area High Schools, and 4th in District U-46.
Elgin High School also holds one of District U-46's magnet academies, and of which Elgin High holds the Gifted and Talented Academy. This academy allows accepted students to participate in college and advance courses starting from Freshman year all the way to Senior year of high school. The academy helps the students to think expansionary by taking advanced coursework, which prepares them for college. Currently, Elgin High is nominated to be and will soon be an international IB course and AP course school in the future. Elgin High also offers (out of the 5 high schools in the district) vast and the most academic opportunities and choices.
As of 2018-2019, the EHS student body was 9.6% White, 6.2% Black, 75% Hispanic, .7% Native American, 5.4% Asian, and 2.4% other races. 75% of students were listed as low-income.
Elgin competes in the Upstate Eight Conference.
The following teams have won their respective Illinois High School Association state championships:
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Elgin High School offers a variety of school activities and sports that students could participate in, with some being a tradition for over 150 years, since 1869.
Sports:
Wrestling Basketball Soccer Football Volleyball Softball Baseball Cheer/Dance Track Cross Country Bowling Lacrosse Etc.
Activities:
Esports Scholastic Bowl Tech Club Acapella Low-Keys Jazz Choir Model United Nations Black Student Union Science Olympiad Etc.
(p. 9) Such contributions fulfilled Judaism's traditional command of "tzedakah" - not simply a command of charity, but of doing justice by giving. Max Adler, Elgin native, Elgin High graduate and Sears Roebuck executive gave Chicago its Adler Planetarium.
Mrs. Leopold Adler, the former Rose Sheuerman, was one of the first group of officers of the Elgin Woman's Club and was active in the establishment of Sherman Hospital. Of their seven children, Max was graduated from Elgin High School in 1883. An accomplished violinist, he later played in concert halls here and abroad. Max Adler married Sophie Rosenwald, entered the employ of Sears, Roebuck & Company, retired as vice president and general manager, and donated the Adler Planetarium to the city of Chicago.
Many consider Earl Tanner Britton, who earned 12 letters in major sports at Elgin High School from 1919-22, to have been the most versatile athlete in Elgin's history.[permanent dead link]
Jack Burmaster ... played varsity basketball at Elgin High School 1942–43 and 1943–44.[permanent dead link]
In his three years as a lineman on Elgin High School grid teams (1918–20), Gus Farwick helped those teams compile an impressive 15–6–2 record that included holding opponents to an average of less than 7 points a game.[permanent dead link]
Flory was born in Sterling, Illinois. He graduated from Elgin High School in Elgin, Illinois, in 1927.
John F. "Jack" Meagher captained the Elgin High School football team in 1913 and he was the mainstay on the 1914 team that compiled a 5–1 record.[permanent dead link]
Doug was a member of the Elgin High School basketball team that captured consecutive state titles in 1924 and 1925.[permanent dead link]
One stop will be at Elgin High School, which Muntz attended before dropping out ...
... Muntz only completed three semesters at Elgin High School before dropping out ...
Louis (Lou) A. North played baseball for Elgin High School in 1909-10.[permanent dead link]
(Jane) Peterson was the daughter of a watch factory worker. Not long after graduating from Elgin High School in 1894, she borrowed money to go to New York to study art.
While a student at Elgin High School in 1963, Oldfield won the Illinois State Championship in the shot put with a throw of 57 feet, 7—1/4 inches in the rain.[permanent dead link]
Rauschenberger, who turns 49 on Aug. 29, grew up in Elgin, Ill., and is the fifth of six children in his family. He graduated from the public high school in 1974 and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in accounting from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
DFlynn was the leading scorer on the Elgin High School conference champion basketball teams in 1957-58 and 1958-59.[permanent dead link]
Born in Elgin, Illinois, on December 16, 1906, Roche attended elementary school there and graduated from Elgin High School in 1923.
Automobile garages and service stations were springing up all over the city during the '20s. One of the gas pumpers at the Texaco outlet was James M. Roche, a graduate of the Elgin High School Class of 1923, who was continuing his education by correspondence. In 1965 he became president of General Motors.
Even when he was a student at Elgin High School in the 1960s, Tom Shales wasn't likely to be found at any homecoming celebrations ... But former classmates don't need to see Shales at homecoming to play that "whatever happened to so-and-so" game. Shales has been in the national spotlight as the television critic for the Washington Post since 1977, winning a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1988.
Rick Sund was an Upstate Eight All—Conference and Rockford Morning Star first team All-State selection as an end on Elgin High School's 1968 varsity football team, which he also captained.[permanent dead link]
Don Sunderlage was one of the greatest basketball players to ever graduate from Elgin High School. Don was the leading scorer on Elgin High School's conference championship team in 1946-1947.[permanent dead link]
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Wilkins was the leading scorer on the outstanding Elgin High School basketball team that made the Elite Eight in 1973.[permanent dead link]
Larry Nemmers: A former Elgin High principal and longtime high school and college official, Nemmers took his officiating skills to the NFL, where he is now one of the game's senior head officials.
Larry has been a National Football League official the past 10 years including referee and crew chief since 1991 ... As the principal of Elgin High School from 1982 to 1994, and an assistant principal at Elgin and Larkin high schools prior to that, he was recognized as a strong supporter of athletics.[permanent dead link]
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| Elgin High School |
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| Larkin High School |
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| South Elgin High School |
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| Streamwood High School |
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