Lake View High School is a public four-year high school located in the Lake View neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Lake View is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. While the current building opened in 1886, the school itself opened in 1874, dating to a time when the Lake View community was not a part of the city of Chicago. Lake View became a part of Chicago in 1889. Created when the Lake View area was its own township before it joined Chicago, the school is the oldest operating township secondary school in the state of Illinois.[8]
Parts of the film My Bodyguard were filmed at Lake View High School.[9]
Academics and activities
Lake View High School earned a bronze medal in the U.S. News/School Matters Best High School rankings.[10]
The school offers approximately 20 clubs and activities for students.[5] Among those which are chapters or branches of nationally notable organizations are National Honor Society and Key Club.[5]
Lake View High School is rated 3 out of 10 by GreatSchools.org, a national school quality information site. [11] GreatSchools’ Summary Rating is based on four of the school’s themed ratings: the Test Score Rating, Student or Academic Progress Rating, College Readiness Rating, and Equity Rating and flags for discipline and attendance disparities at a school.
Athletics
Lake View competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Wildcats. The boys' track & field team finished second at the first IHSA State Meet in 1892–93, and its boys' soccer team finished fourth in the IHSA State Tournament in 2008–09.[12][13]
In the years before World War Two, the school had a fifty-foot rifle range in the basement and fielded a rifle team.[14]
Feeder patterns
K-8 schools which feed into Lake View include Audubon, Bell, Blaine, Burley, Greeley, Hamilton, Jahn, Nettelhorst, and Schneider.[15][16]
Notable alumni
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Lee Balterman, (class of 1938), 1920–2012, Chicago Photographer, carrying a camera until the end, noted photographer of ballet, sports and Chicago street scenes.
^George, John B (23 July 2018). Shots Fired in Anger: A Rifleman's Eye View of the Activities on the Island of Guadalcanal (Kindle ed.). 241: Carbine Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^ abcdefMcGavin, Patrick Z. (12 January 2010), "Lake View", Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 16 January 2010, retrieved 17 January 2010
^ abcd91st General Assembly (1998). House Resolution 0085 (Technical report). Illinois House of Representatives. HR 0085. WHEREAS, Lake View High School has seen admirals, generals, judges, politicians, stars from the entertainment industry, and business leaders graduate from its halls of academia; Edgar Bergen, Gloria Swanson, and Tom Bosley are from the entertainment field ... ; former State Representative Sidney Yates was a graduate ...{{cite tech report}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Smith, Jay T. "Rewriting History: The Birth of the Globetrotters (Chicago Stories)". program notes. WTTW-TV (PBS Chicago). Retrieved 18 January 2010. Globetrotter founder Abe Saperstein graduated Lake View High School in 1920. He went to the University of Illinois for a very short time, and in late 1920 or early 1921 began working for the Chicago Park District.
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