Lyons Township High School | |
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Address | |
100 S. Brainard Ave. LaGrange, Illinois 60525 United States |
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Coordinates |
41°48′44″N 87°52′49″W / 41.812155°N 87.88028°W (North campus) 41°48′04″N 87°53′28″W / 41.801247°N 87.89101°W (South campus) |
Information | |
School type | Co-ed Public |
Motto | Vita Plena |
Opened | 1888 |
School district | Lyons Township High School District 204 |
Superintendent | Timothy B. Kilrea, PhD |
Principal | Dr. Brian Waterman (Principal) Therese Nelson (Associate Principal South) Dr. K. Gogna(associate Principal North) |
Grades | 9–12 |
Average class size | 18.8 |
Campus | Suburban |
School colour(s) |
royal blue gold |
Fight song | Gold and Blue |
Athletics conference | West Suburban Conference |
Mascot | Noil the lion |
Nickname | Lions |
Accreditation | North Central Association |
Newspaper | Lion |
Yearbook | Tabulae |
Budget | $16,735/student |
Nobel laureates |
Ben R. Mottelson 1975-physics |
Website | www |
Lyons Township High School (often referred to as LTHS or simply LT) is a public high school located in Western Springs, Illinois (South Campus) and also in La Grange, Illinois (North Campus). Lyons Township is a co-educational high school and serves grades 9-12 for Lyons Township High School District 204. Students from the communities of LaGrange, Western Springs, Burr Ridge, La Grange Park, Countryside, Indian Head Park, Hodgkins, and parts of Brookfield, Willow Springs, and McCook attend Lyons Township. Lyons Township High School is the 8th largest public high school in Illinois and the 46th largest public high school in the United States. Freshmen and sophomores attend class at South campus, located at 4900 S. Willow Springs Rd. in Western Springs. Juniors and seniors attend class at North campus, located at 100 S. Brainard Ave. in LaGrange, which also houses the district offices. Sports facilities at Lyons Township include swimming pools, field houses, theatres, a turf football field (south campus), soccer fields, baseball fields, a gym, outdoor tracks, basketball courts, and volleyball courts. The two campuses are about a mile apart. Activity busses run after school between the campuses.
Lyons Township High School was opened on September 4, 1888. The enrollment included 39 students. An athletic field named Emmond Field was constructed in 1888, and a 1926-1929 expansion included a clock tower, auditorium, offices, library, and a gym. Leonard H. Vaughan (President of a seed company and former school board president,) funded the construction of the Vaughan Building; it was constructed in 1952 for sporting events and classes. In 1956, South Campus was opened about a mile south-west in nearby Western Springs to accommodate the community's growing population. The Corral was constructed in 1944 as a social place for all students to spend time with each other after school hours. In 2005, a performing arts center, a field house, and a pool were added to the South campus to complement the facilities at the North campus. .