

Congressional Debate: 1st Place Harvard National Congress (2006, 2009).The following clubs have scored championships in non-IHSA sanctioned events: Group Interpretation: State Champions (1979–80).The following competitive teams have won their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament: 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. Highland Park offers 64 clubs, activities, and intramurals for students. Tennis (Boys): State Champions (1972–73).Cross country (Boys): State Champions (1961–62).The following teams have won their respective IHSA sponsored state championship tournament: Highland Park also sponsors a joint fencing team with Deerfield High School for men and women. 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. Women may compete in softball and field hockey. Young men may also compete in baseball, golf, football, and Scholastic wrestling. The school sponsors interscholastic sports teams for young men and women in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling and water polo.

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. Highland Park High School has non native-English speaking students and a student population of 80% white, 15% Hispanic, 3% Asian and 2% African American. 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. In 2013, Highland Park had an average composite ACT score of 25.2, and graduated 90.5% of its senior class. The additions and renovations were designed by Legat Architects and executed by VACALA Construction, Inc. HPHS received several new additions and renovations with 130,000 square feet (12,000 m 2) renovated and 77,000 square feet (7,200 m 2) added. In 2000, HPHS and its sister school, Deerfield High School underwent a two-year, $75 million renovation and expansion project. Over the course of time, however, several additions have been constructed. It has occupied the present site on Vine Avenue since 1900. A new, separate Deerfield High School opened 20 years later to serve the growing population.įor 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. This led to the return of the name Highland Park High School. The building of Lake Forest High School in 1936 provided a school to serve Shields Township students. The high school served both Deerfield (renamed Moraine in 1998) and Shields townships from 1904 until 1936 and was Deerfield-Shields High School. From 1900-1904, the school was known as Deerfield High School. It is part of Township High School District 113. 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.
