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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. From 1900-1904, the school was known as Deerfield High School. The High School served both Deerfield (renamed Moraine in 1998) and Shields townships 1904-1936; and bore the name Deerfield-Shields High School. The building of Lake Forest High School in 1936 provided a school to serve Shields Township students. This led to the return of the name Highland Park High School. A new, separate Deerfield High School opened 20 years later to serve the growing population.

History
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 130000 sqft renovated and 77000 sqft added. The additions and renovations were designed by Legat Architects and executed by VACALA Construction, Inc.

Academics
In 2013, Highland Park had an average composite ACT score of 25.2, and graduated 90.5% of its senior class. Highland Park has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, a state test part of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Highland Park High School has a number of non native-English speaking students and a relatively diverse student population of 80% white, 15% Hispanic, 3% Asian and 2% African American.

Athletics
Highland Park competes in the Central Suburban League and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) which governs most of the sports and competitive activities in the state. Its mascot is the Giants.

The school sponsors interscholastic sports teams for young men and women in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, wrestling and water polo. Young men may also compete in baseball, golf, football, and Scholastic wrestling. Women may compete in softball. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors teams for men and women in lacrosse in addition to an ice hockey team for men. Highland Park also sponsors a joint fencing team with Deerfield High School for men and women.

The following teams have won their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament:


 * Cross country (Boys): State Champions (1961–62)
 * Golf (Boys): State Champions (1939–40, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1958–59)
 * Tennis (Boys): State Champions (1972–73)

Activities
Highland Park offers 64 clubs, activities, and intramurals for students. Among these activities are chapters or affiliates of several nationally notable organizations: Amnesty International, Congressional Debate, DECA, FIRST Tech Challenge, Key Club, and Model UN.

The repertoire of the drama department includes two plays and one musical each year in addition to an all original student musical called STUNTS, which is entirely directed, choreographed, produced by students, and a "Short Play" festival, directed entirely by students. Past performances include renditions of Metamorphoses, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Laramie Project, Les Misérables, Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown, Beauty and the Beast, and Evita. During the 2005–2006 and 2011–2012 school years, the play On Stars Not Falling (written by one of Highland Park's acting teachers) was selected to be performed at the Illinois High School Theatre Festival.

Focus on the Arts is a biennial event that brings artists to Highland Park High School to share their passion with its students. Over three days, world-renowned artists come to the high school to showcase their talents and encourage students to explore the arts themselves. The mediums of music, visual arts, dance, creative writing, media and theater are represented. Presentations on sports media, improvisation theater, and creative writing are particularly popular. Students at Highland Park High School program their own schedule so they attend activities they wish to attend. Three regularly scheduled academic classes occur for each day that is missed for Focus events. Focus is funded from a variety of resources including but not limited to grants, private donations, and allowances. All events are free to the students, faculty, staff, and the community at large.

In 2005, Focus celebrated its 20th biennial. In celebration, the Highland Park High School Chorus and Orchestra collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to perform opera choruses for the opening night celebration, which was conducted by Duain Wolfe, Director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

The following competitive teams have won their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament:


 * Drama: State Champions (1977–78)
 * Group Interpretation: State Champions (1979–80)

The following clubs have scored championships in non-IHSA sanctioned events:


 * Congressional Debate: 1st Place Harvard National Congress (2006, 2009)
 * Wind Symphony: Gold Medal Young Prague International Music Festival (2012)

Philanthropy
Since 1994, students at HPHS annually mobilize to support a charity during February. This month-long event is known as "Charity Drive" and is orchestrated by the Charity Drive Committee, one of the subdivisions of the school-wide political Student Senate. Students choose the charity in a school vote. The school regularly raises six-figure amounts and is courted by charities. students have raised more than $3 million dollars.

Academia and letters

 * Eric J. Engberg (class of 1959) is a former correspondent for CBS News (1976 to 2003).
 * Stephen Glass (class of 1990) is a former reporter at The New Republic disgraced in a scandal dramatized in Shattered Glass.
 * William Goldman (class of 1948) was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Butch Cassidy and All the President's Men), and author of The Princess Bride.
 * John M. Grunsfeld is an astronaut at NASA.
 * David R. Palmer (class of 1959) is a science fiction author.
 * Francis G. Pease was an astronomer.
 * Mike Resnick (class of 1959) is a science fiction author.
 * Brian Ross (class of 1966) is a broadcast journalist.
 * Maria Tatar (class of 1963) is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.
 * Peter Suber (class of 1969) is Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University and a leader in the movement for open access to research.
 * Stephen Wizner is a law professor at Yale University.

The arts

 * Rachel Brosnahan (class of 2008) is a Golden Globe-winning actress in the Netflix series House of Cards and the Amazon Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
 * Brian Levant is a producer, director, and writer of family movies such as Jingle All the Way or TV shows like Mork & Mindy.
 * Brett Gelman is an actor and comedian.
 * Jeff Perry (class of 1973) is an actor who co–founded the Steppenwolf Theater.
 * Gary Sinise (class of 1974) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor.
 * Rosalind Fox Solomon (class of 1947), photographer
 * D. B. Weiss, producer of Game of Thrones

Sports

 * Jason Brown is a US Olympic figure skater and 2015 national champion.
 * Tony Cogan was a Major League Baseball pitcher.
 * Tunch Ilkin was a sports broadcaster and a former NFL Pro Football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers

Military

 * Stansfield Turner (class of 1941) was a U.S. Navy Admiral and later CIA Director.
 * Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (class of 1901) was an Army Lieutenant General. He is a Medal of Honor recipient.

Politics

 * Jill Stein (class of 1968) is an American physician, activist, and politician affiliated with the Green Party of the United States.

Staff

 * Paul Adams briefly taught at HPHS after leaving the military, before transferring to Deerfield High School in 1966 and becoming that school's head football coach.
 * Jerry Wainwright was the school's head boys basketball coach (1978—83). He was later men's head coach at DePaul University.